Lovejoy v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2008
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Ritchie v. Waller · Quinn v. . Power · Edmison v. Lowry
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule generally adopted in other states is that, where the fee to the highway is in the abutting owner, trees growing thereon belong to such owner, except as they may be needed for the purpose of making the way or repairing it, and, if such trees are cut or injured otherwise than is necessary for making or repairing the highway, the owner is entitled to damages, [citation omitted] We see no reason why substantially the same rule should not prevail even when the fee is in the city or town....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.