Bergin v. Bistodeau’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2021
10 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. Great Northern Railway Company · Ramsouer v. Midland Valley R. · Larson v. Chicago, M. & St. P. R'y. Co. · Tinaglia v. Ittzes · Knight v. Madison
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dedication is generally defined as the devotion of property to a public use by an unequivocal act of the owner that manifests an intention that the property dedicated shall be accepted and used presently or in the future. The intention of the owner to dedicate and acceptance thereof by the public are the essential elements of a complete dedication. Black’s Law Dictionary defines “dedicate” as “[t]o appropriate and set apart one’s private property to some public use; as to make a private way public by acts evincing an intention to do so.” The term “dedication” is defined as “[a]n appropriation of land to some public use by or on behalf of the public[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether or not there is a genuine issue of fact. It does not contemplate that the court shall decide such issue of fact, but shall determine only whether one exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lammers v. State“findings of fact and conclusions of law [are] unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lammers v. State
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.