State v. Feigel’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Grand Trunk Western R. v. H. W. Nelson Co. (1941), 17 Wash. App. 501 - City of Seattle v. Dyad Construction, Inc. (1977)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Horowitz v. United States · Murray v. Charleston · United States v. United Engineering & Constructing Company · Carr v. State ex rel. Coetlosquet · Hartman v. Greenhow
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking at this contract in the light of the decisions referred to, it occurs to us that the plainest principles of justice require the implication of a covenant on the part of the state to provide a right of way so as to enable the appellee [contractor] to prosecute his work to the utmost advantage and economy. Any other construction would destroy the mutuality of the agreement, and put it practically in the power of the state to defeat performance by the contractor. It is true that the contract does not expressly state that appellant [the state] shall furnish the right of way, nor does it fix any definite time when the same should be acquired; but the clearest implication arises from the-language of the agreement and its avowed object and interest that the right of way over which the proposed highway was to be constructed should be secured by the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is not one law for the state and another for its subjects. When the state engages in business and business enterprises, and enters into contracts with individuals, the rights and obligations of the contracting parties must be adjusted upon the same principles ’as if both contracting parties were private persons. Both stand upon equality before the law.” page 445. (and cases there cited).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Looking at this contract in the light of the decisions referred to, it occurs to us that the plainest principles of justice require the implication of a covenant on the part of the state to provide a right of way so as to enable the appellee to prosecute his work to the utmost advantage and economy.””
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.