Hill v. Wing’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Birmingham Trust & Savings Co. v. Mason (1930), Sellers v. Valenzuela (1947)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Ricard v. Williams · Borman v. State · Polly v. McCall · Steele v. Sullivan · Watkins v. Peck
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case of our own court, nearest in point, which we have examined, is that of Steele v. Sullivan, 70 Ala. 589 . In that case it was said that a dedication can properly be made only to the public use; that a private right of way cannot be created by dedication.”
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.