Graham v. Caperton’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1956
7 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 Milton v. Haden · Lewis v. Intendant & Town Council of Gainesville · Tuscaloosa County v. Foster · Jones v. Johnson · State ex rel. Driver v. Commissioners of Roads & Revenue of Talladega
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to keep a public ferry. for toll is a franchise which cannot be exercised without legislative authority. Milton v. Haden, 32 Ala. 30 , 70 Am. Dec. 523 ; Tuscaloosa County v. Foster, 132 Ala. 392 , 31 South. 587 . ‘As a matter of right, and as incidental to the right of property, any one owning lands on both sides of a river could establish a public ferry; but, as it is a matter ip which the public is deeply interested, the Legislature has by law taken this right from the citizen, and deposited the power with the court of roads and revenue.’ Jones v. Johnson, 2 Ala. 746 . It is therefore not appurtenant to the land of the riparian owner.””
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.