Whitton v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Il Giardino, LLC v. Belle Haven Land Co. (2000), Contegni v. Payne (1989)
73 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on De Gray v. Monmouth Beach Club House Co. · Peabody Heights Co. v. Willson · Reis v. . City of New York · Town of Derby v. Alling · Bacon v. Sandberg
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where an owner of land causes a map to be made of it upon which are delineated separate lots and streets and highways by which access may be had to them, and then sells the lots, referring in his conveyances to the map, the lot owners acquire the right to have the streets and highways thereafter kept open for use in connection with their lands.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[w]here the owner of village property makes and publishes a map of it, with streets distinctly delineated, and then sells lots bounded on these streets, he comes under obligation to his vendees to open the streets to the public '”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“among the various lot owners to enforce among themselves the provisions of the stipulation or to impose them upon lands now owned by the plaintiff which never were in terms subjected to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.