Scully v. Squier’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002
3 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 Stringfellow v. Cain · City of Helena v. Albertose · City of Denver v. Kent · City of Pueblo v. Budd · Alemany v. City of Petaluma
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The.question is fairly presented as to whether said True had any authority whatever to make said plat so as to'interfere with and cut off a part of the buildings and improvements of the occupants of such lots. In other words whether under the law a surveyor, who is employed to plat such a townsite after its entry by the proper officer, can widen a street, and in doing so cut off a portion of the buildings and improvements of the lot owners bordering on such street.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scully v. Squier“It appears from the evidence in the case that said True made a plat of said town, including block 24, in which block are the lots involved in this case, so as to make the lots about , forty-six feet long, north and south, when, as a matter of fact, most, if not all of the lots in that block were fifty feet long, north and south, as indicated by the buildings and other improvements thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scully v. Squier“It must be kept in mind that Lewiston existed prior to the True survey. The settlers did not acquire their right under the plat nor by virtue of it. The survey and plat was made for them; they were not made for the survey and plat.”
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.