Elson v. Comstock’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1923
12 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 Fort Dearborn Lodge No. 214 v. Klein · Lee v. Town of Mound Station · Zearing v. Raber · Campbell v. Cross · Rendleman v. Rendleman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment is also conclusive upon any rights, which the plaintiffs in error might otherwise have to such use of' the block, because their rights are dependent upon those of the' village, and can only be derived and held through the village, 'as the representative of the public.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bott v. Lakowsky
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.