Ashby v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
119 U.S. 526 · 1886
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), McCloskey v. Pacific Coast Co. (1908)
6 federal appellate · 10 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The very notion of land settled upon and occupied as a town site implies the existence of streets, alleys, lots, and blocks; and, for the possession of the lots and their convenient use and enjoyment, there must of necossity bo appurtenant to them a right of way over adjacent streets and alleys. The entry of the land carried with it such a right of way.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof, according to their respective interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scully v. Squier
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.