Gorieb v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Gorieb v. Fox (1927), Ward v. Scott (1952)
30 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 Barbier v. Connolly · Noble State Bank v. Haskell · Eubank v. City of Richmond · Camfield v. United States · Miller v. Board of Public Works of Los Angeles
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he extent of this power is difficult to define, but it is elastic and expands automatically to protect the public against the improper use of private property to the injury of the pubic interest. It must never be exercised except in a reasonable manner and for the welfare of the public.”
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.