Jorgensen v. . Squires’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1971 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), 10 E.H. Smith 354 - Trustees of the Village of Canandaigua v. Foster (1898)
56 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Jennings v. . Van Schaick · Clifford v. . Dam
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While such uses may restrict somewhat the free and unembarrassed use of the streets for pedestrians, the general interests are subserved by making available to the greatest extent valuable property, increasing business facilities, giving encouragement to improvements and adding to taxable values.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hatfield v. . Straus
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.