Chenault v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1948
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.
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.
““There are cogent reasons why public notice of an alteration in a public highway like this should be given; for otherwise the traveling public, who may be vitally interested in the highway, would have no notice of the proceeding, and be unable to protect themselves. As the public notice is required as the basis of the proceeding, it is jurisdictional. The court is without power to proceed until the notice is given. It is true that Mrs. Chenault, having learned of the proceeding, entered her appearance and filed her exceptions; but other members of the community may be also interested in this change, and until the-public notice is given, as required by the statute, the court is without power to make an alteration in the road. Mitchell v. Bond, 11 Bush, 614 ; Lebanon, etc., Turnpike Co. v. Caney Creek Road, 6 Ky. Law Rep. 747 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stephens v. Hubbard
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.