Collins v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1842
Citation profile
1 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Hollywyle Assn., Inc. v. Hollister (1973), Ellis v. Bassett (1891)
1 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 20 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The law will not presume that it was the intention of the parties, that one should convey land to the other in such manner that the grantee could derive no benefit from the conveyance.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Baird · Horner v. Heersche““There is certainly nothing in the statute, which in terms changes the common law upon this subject. And we think there is nothing arising by implication. Private ways may be very needful and proper which are not strictly ways of necessity. . . .” (p. 45.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Horner v. Heersche
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.