Thomas v. Farrier’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1993
18 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 Marland v. Gillespie · Siegenthaler v. Newton · Foster Lumber Co. v. Arkansas Valley & W. Ry. Co. · State Ex Rel. King v. McCurdy · City of Tulsa v. Aaronson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The owner of land abutting upon a public highway, which is obstructed so as to cut off or materially cut off his means of ingress and egress to and - from his property, held, suffers a special injury which entitles him to maintain an action to enjoin such public nuisance, notwithstanding, another highway upon which his property abuts affords him another, and equally good or better way of ingress and egress. * * * »”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lindauer v. Hill
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.