Valentine v. Lamont’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably City of Trenton v. Lenzner (1954), Yanhko v. Fane (1976)
2 district · 26 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 Brooklyn Park Commissioners v. Armstrong · Tide-Water Co. v. Coster · City of Newton v. Perry · Coster v. Tide Water Co. · Saco v. Hall
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has always been the law of this State, both at the common law and under the eminent domain statute, that the land of the abutting owner was merely charged with the easement of public travel and the necessary incidents thereof and the fee to the land to the middle of the road remained in the abutting owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an inherent and a necessary right of the sovereignty of the state.”
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.