Epling v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably City of Los Angeles v. Abbott (1932), 128 F. Supp. 697 - Juneau Spruce Corp. v. International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union (1955)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDickson v. Epling
Relationships
Relies on Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Heiss · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. McAuley · Cook v. South Park 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where private property is taken or damaged for public use, just compensation cannot be made to the property owner if he is compelled to prosecute in the courts for his just rights at his own costs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. State
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.