People v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2021
20 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 Holyoke Company v. Lyman · Magner v. People · Gentile v. State · In re Swigert · State v. Franklin Falls 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To hunt and kill game is a boon or privilege granted, either expressly or impliedly, by the sovereign authority, not a right inhering in each individual; and consequently nothing is taken away from the individual when he is denied the privilege, at stated seasons, of hunting and killing game. * * * The ownership of the sovereign authority is in trust for all the people of the state, and hence, by implication, it is the duty of the legislature to enact such laws as will best preserve the subject of the trust, and secure its beneficial use in the future to the people of the state. But in any case the question of individual enjoyment is one of public policy, and not of private right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Eberle““We think the rule will not he questioned that a general statute regulating the killing of game, or restricting the right to kill it to certain portions of the year, applies as well to the game which a particular landowner may chance to iind on Ills own premises as to that which may be found on the land of others, or upon lands belonging to the public.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Eberle
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.