Young v. Carey’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1967 · most notably Vance v. Rankin (1902), People ex rel. Foote v. Clark (1918)
25 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedYoung v. Carey
Relationships
Relies on Comrs. of Mason v. Griffin · Whittaker v. Village of Venice
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That whenever the owners representing a majority of the area of land of any territory within any city or village, and being upon the border and within the boundary thereof, and not laid out into city or village lots or blocks, shall petition the city council of such city, or the trustees of such village, praying disconnection of such territory therefrom,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vance v. Rankin
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.