Willis v. Sproule’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2000
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a careful consideration of the question we have come to the conclusion that whenever the records and files of the board of county commissioners purporting to establish a county road are regular in form, and contain everything which the statutes require to be preserved and kept in such cases, such records and files will prove, prima facie at least, that such road has been legally established and has a legal existence, and therefore that there is no necessity in the first instance to resort to evidence aliunde to prove the legal existence of the road. Such ought to be the law, and especially so where the existence of the road is attacked collaterally, as in this case. The strongest reasons, and some very high authority, sustain this view of the law. (Anderson v. Comm’rs of Hamilton Co., 12 Ohio St. 635 , 642; Beebe v. Scheidt, 13 Ohio St. 406 418 .)” (p. 264.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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