Parker v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1821
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 1982 · most notably Appeal of Ferguson (1888), Dunklee v. Wilton Railroad (1852)
41 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ We consider this to be not merely a description, but an implied covenant that there are such streets. It probably entered much into the consideration of the purchase that the lot fronted upon two ways which would always be kept open, and, indeed, copld never be shut without a right to damages in the grantee or his assigns.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Riley v. Stein
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.