Carter v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2004
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 United States v. Chavez · City of Chicago v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Dodge v. Irvington Land Co. · Rosser v. Bunn & Timberlake · Harper v. State
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The establishment of a highway by prescription depends upon its continuous adverse use by the general public who have occasion to use it; and specific recognition and care of such a road by county or municipal authorities is not essential to its public character and status, although such official recognition and care would of course be strong evidence thereof. — 37 Cyc. 29 (III), and the numerous authorities cited. See, also, for general definition, Harper v. State , 109 Ala. 66 , 19 So. 901 ; Lewman v. Andrews , 129 Ala. 170 , 29 So. 692 ; Dunn v. Gunn , 149 Ala. 583 , 42 So. 686 . [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That the general use of a roadway by the public for 20 years will, if unexplained, raise a presumption of the existence of all other elements and conditions necessary to create a highway by prescription.””
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.