Greil v. Stollenwerck’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2009
14 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 First National Bank v. Tyson · City of Demopolis v. Webb · First National Bank v. Tyson · City of Greenville v. Greenville Water Works Co. · Perrin v. . New York Central Railroad Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““‘[T]he dedication must, as the law phrase runs, be accepted secundum for-mam doni [according to the form of the gift or grant]. It is stated in general terms in some of the cases that there may be a partial acceptance, but it seems to us that this doctrine must be taken with some qualification. If the donor should consent that the public might accept part and reject part, then, doubtless, the acceptance, if for the public generally, would be valid; but if he should insist on a full acceptance, we think that on principle he would be sustained by the courts since to hold otherwise would be in effect to compel him to part with his property on terms different from those prescribed in his grant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Valid dedication to a part only of the public, since this would be repugnant to the purpose of the 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.