Albert v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1949
9 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 Cochran v. United States · State ex inf. Crow v. West Side Street Railway Co. · State ex rel. Wyatt v. Ashbrook · Risser v. Hoyt · Beasley v. Linehan Transfer Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““May from time to time, by resolution, fix and determine such further conditions than those herein set forth, to be complied with, before all or any contract shall be made or entered into for the construction, improvement or clearing out of any drain as hereinbefore provided, as to such boards shall seem necessary and proper to protect all persons anfi townships that may be affected by the proceedings; and no contract or expenditure shall be made or entered into by the drain commissioner or his deputy, without first complying with such conditions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. Heisler““ The legislature may confer upon organized townships, incorporated cities and villages, and upon the board of supervisors of the several counties, such powers of a local, legislative and administrative character as they may deem proper.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. Heisler““It has been frequently'held by this court that the laying out of drains is a mere neighborhood matter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chandler v. Heisler
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.