Bailey v. Ravalli County’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2008
16 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 Bolinger v. City of Bozeman · Erdman v. C & C SALES, INC. · McPherson v. Monegan · Salter v. Jonas · Portland Baseball Club v. City of Portland
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A transfer of land bounded by a highway passes the title of the person whose estate is transferred to the soil of the highway in front of the center thereof unless a different intent appears from the grant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herreid v. Hauck“A highway which is lawfully vacated or abandoned ceases to be a highway and, insofar as the public has a mere easement of way, the title reverts to the owners of the fee discharged from the servitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herreid v. Hauck“[U]pon abandonment that the fee in the street reverts to the abutting landowners, with each abutting landowner taking fee from the edge of his or her property to the center of the street.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Herreid v. Hauck
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.