Quick v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Great Northern Ry Co v. United States (1942), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Smith (1912)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Water Works Co. v. Burkhart · Brookville & Metamora Hydraulic Co. v. Butler · Burk v. Hill · Shelbyville & Brandywine Turnpike Co. v. Green · Wash. Cemetery v. . P.P. C.I.R.R. Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine generally accepted is, that the right acquired by the power of eminent domain extends only to an easement in the land taken, unless the statute plainly provides for the acquisition of a larger interest.”
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.