Vanover v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1964
16 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 Oliver Newman v. United States of America · St. Paul Gaslight Co. v. Village of Sandstone · People ex rel. Scrafford v. Board of Supervisors · Hurley v. Motz · Worley v. Harris
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No such town (of the sixth class) shall become incorporated unless it contains at least 125 inhabitants residing within the boundaries proposed to be established for such town nor shall the boundary of any town when incorporated exceed one quarter of a mile in each direction, the form of the town being square. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.