Nairn v. Bean’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1991 · most notably City of Texarkana v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. (1939), Holloway v. Purcell (1950)
5 federal appellate · 24 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The effect of the present statute (6663 et seq.) on the subject is to vest administrative control of all public roads which might be a part of the state highway system in the state highway department, with respect to the * * * relocation, improvement, construction * * * thereof. Whatever said department may do in the premises, in the exercise of an honest, discretion, must be respected when untainted by fraud and unassailed on account of accident or mistake occurring in their performance, or such abuse of discretion as under the authorities would avoid the same.” (Citing authorities).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.