Creasy v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · United States v. Causby · Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Railway Co. · Toomer v. Witsell · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. Illinois ex rel. Drainage Commissioners
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a public highway to which owners or occupants of abutting property or the traveling public have no right of ingress or egress to, from or across such highway, except as may be provided by the authorities responsible therefor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The right of access to a public highway is a property right which cannot be taken or materially interfered with without just compensation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.