Bewley v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1928
19 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 Tucker v. Harris · Humboldt Cty. v. Dinsmore · Tustin v. Gaunt · Monastes v. Catlin · Thompson v. Multnomah County
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.
““Counsel for respondent rely very much on Northern Pac. T. Co. v. City of Portland, 14 Or. 24 ( 13 Pac. 705 ). But it fails to sustain his contention, for two reasons. The common council of the City of Portland cannot be said to be a court in any sense of that term, but it has certain specified and limited powers conferred upon it to lay out and widen streets, etc., which it may exercise by complying with the charter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. River
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.