Patterson v. Mead’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1936
8 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 Kinnie v. Bare · Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad v. Campbell · Brady v. Hayward · Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Weiden · Grand Rapids, Lansing & Detroit Railroad v. Weiden
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no objection to a single proceeding by the county drain commissioner to open, widen, straighten, deepen, and extend, three drains, established by township drain commissioners, where it appears, as it does here, that they, in fact, constitute one drainage canal, no portion of which can be much disturbed without affecting the entire drain. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clinton v. Spencer““The statute (2 Comp. Laws 1897, § 4346) provides for a speedy review of proceedings in establishing a drain by certiorari, in which review, if any error be found in the proceedings, the court shall direct the county drain commissioner to correct such error or errors and then proceed the same as though no error had been made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Squier v. Nash
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.