Rayfield v. Park’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 1942
4 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 Gridley v. City of Bloomington · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Barker · City of Peoria v. Adams · Chicago & G. T. Ry. Co. v. Hoffman
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Marshall Amusement Company constructed the maze and was in exclusive possession and control of it and its site; and the Sans Souci Park could not incur liability by reason of the fact, proved by the plaintiff, that it made a lease to the Marshall Amusement Company of the ground on which the maze was. ’ ’”
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.