Sweatman v. Bathrick’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2008
11 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 Banks v. Ogden · Storer v. Freeman · Bissell v. . the New York Central R.R. Company · White's Bank of Buffalo v. . Nichols · Peck v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * it is evident from the language used that the learned circuit court was referring to legal dedication; that is, dedication provided for by statute. It will be noticed the language used by the court is, `was never legally dedicated to the public by the owners thereof.' A common-law dedication (that is, a dedication inferred from acts of the parties) is not usually designated as a legal dedication. The dedication in such cases arises by reason of estoppel."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Calvert v. Johnston“An owner of land bounded by a road or street is presumed to own to the center of the way, but the contrary may be shown.”
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.