Fenton v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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.
Relationships
Relies on In re Incorporation of Village of North Milwaukee · State ex rel. Town of Holland v. Lammers · Nash v. Fries
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.
““It is argued that the court was in error in holding that the water area embraced within the boundaries of the proposed village should be included as part of the one-half square mile provided for by sec. 854, Stats. (1898), and that such a ruling was tantamount to holding that no village could be incorporated which bordered on a large body of water. We do not think the position is tenable. The incorporators of the proposed village were not obliged to include water areas within the village limits if they did not desire to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The statement in the North Milwaukee Case that a court could not determine whether lands embraced in a petition for incorporation should justly be included in the proposed village was made in reference to a subject not directly before the court for determination and can hardly be considered a part of the decision of the court. Besides, the constitutional question raised and decided in State ex rel. Holland v. Lammers was not raised, passed upon, or considered in the North Milwaukee Case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“distinctly urban in character, with such adjacent lands as are naturally connected with, and are reasonably appurtenant and necessary for future growth, in view of the surroundings and circumstances of location and prospects of future prosperity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.