Oetting v. Pollock’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2008
19 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 Hickman v. Link · Weller v. Missouri Lumber & Mining Co. · Johnson v. Rasmus · Kyle v. Board of Commissioners · Small v. Binford
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he only limitation upon the abandonment of an established public road is that it must not be done to the injury of the vested rights of abutting owners.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“utterly failed to carry the burden cast upon her of establishing an abandonment of this public road, and that the trial court clearly erred in its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The fact that the road is rarely, if ever, used by persons other than the appellants, makes it none the less a public highway.'”
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.