Nelson v. Fehd’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1993
19 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNelson v. Fehd
Relationships
Relies on Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Dunleavy · Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Eaton · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Olis · Boyd v. Town of Farm Ridge · Lenning v. Lenning
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellant had a right, upon this highway, to do that necessary for the drainage of his lands, provided he did not interfere with the use of the highway, rendering it less safe, useful, or convenient for the public.”
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.