Messick v. Barham’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2011
15 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 Wilson v. City of Wheeling · Richmond Railway & Electric Co. v. Garthright · Taulborg v. Andresen · Oliver v. Forsyth · Jones v. City of Williamsburg
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is generally accepted that the word `street' is all inclusive and means all that portion of a highway set apart and designated for such use, that is, embraces both that portion of the highway set apart for vehicular traffic and that part set aside for pedestrians”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is true that a sidewalk along a public street is part of the street”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.