Hays v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 1904
13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of this essential requisite of the petition in the case at bar, we are of opinion that the county board was not authorized to act upon the subject. * * * As the whole proceeding had been thus built upon an insufficient and invalid foundation, the court did right to dismiss it, because at some future stage of its progress it might, perhaps, have involved persons in serious litigation, in attempting to open and establish said road.””
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.