Singewald v. Girden’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2007
11 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 Johnson v. Town of Watertown · Reilly v. City of Racine · Mullan v. Hochman · Harlan & Hollingsworth Co. v. Paschall · Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh & West Virginia Ry.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a state makes a plat of its own land and publicly sells lots as abutting on streets shown therein, the same authority which makes the dedication, by the same act accepts it on behalf of the public. The dedication and its acceptance are in the same acts * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““... [I]t is well known that while some kind of acceptance is necessary, it need not be acceptance by the general public. There can be acceptance by action of public authorities. See 11 McQuillen Municipal Corp., § 33.47.” 127 A.2d at 616 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“which will probably be within the next few years, it will be necessary for [him] to remove your cottage from the street bed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Singewald v. Girden
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.