Mullan v. Hochman’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Boucher v. Boyer (1984), Harlan v. Town of Bel Air (1940)
32 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 Board of Supervisors v. City of Lincoln · White v. Flannigain · Moale v. Mayor of Baltimore · Hawley v. Mayor of Baltimore · McCormick v. Mayor of Baltimore
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is firmly established in this state, and supported by the overwhelming weight of authority elsewhere, that when a person subdivides property in a city and lays down on a plat thereof, made or adopted by him, lots shown as bordering streets and alleys delineated upon the plat, and then sells any of the lots with reference to the plat, he thereby dedicates the streets upon which the sold lots bind, to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Singewald v. Girden
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.