Ross v. Stackhouse’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 1956 · most notably Quill v. City of Indianapolis (1890), Barber Asphalt Paving Co. v. Edgerton (1890)
2 federal appellate · 63 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 Stuart v. . Palmer · Platter v. Board of Commissioners · Lipes v. Hand · Heick v. Voight · Board of Commissioners v. Fullen
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the proceedings are so radically defective as to be totally void, a contractor, who has executed the work, may invoke the doctrine of estoppel for his protection. Where the record of the proceedings shows color of jurisdiction, the property owner, until the contrary appears, will be. presumed to have had notice of the progress of an improvement from which his property was being benefited. Taber v. Ferguson, 109 Ind. 206 , 9 N. E. 721 . And having notice, and failing to object, and arrest the improvement, until the benefit has accrued, he will be deemed to have ratified the proceedings as fully as does one who receives - the proceeds of a judgment or sale, with knowledge of inherent infirmities which render it voidable or even void. Fletcher v. McGill, 110 Ind. 395 , 404, 10 N. E. 651 , 11 N. E. 779 . Special assessments for street and other similar- improvements are upheld upon the theory that each lot or tract of land assessed is benefited in a special and peculiar manner, in a sum equal to the amount estimated or assessed against it. The lien is, therefore, enforceable against the land, upon the theory that the owner has received a personal and pecuniary benefit by the improvement, which the citizens do not share in common. Heick v. Voight, 110 Ind. 279 , 11 N. E. 806 ; Lipes v. Hand, 104 Ind. 503 , 1 N. E. 871 , 4 N. E. 160 ; Chamberlain v. Cleveland, 34 Ohio St. 551 ; Stuart v. Palmer, 74 N. Y. 183 , 30 Am. Rep. 289 ; Hammett v. Philadelphia, 65 Pa. 146 , 3 Am. Re”
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.