State v. Patten’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably State v. ENSLEY (1960), State Etc. v. Marion Cir. Ct. (1958)
29 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 Sauer v. City of New York · City of Pontiac v. Carter · Cassidy v. Old Colony Railroad · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hadley · New York Life Insurance v. Adams
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the right of way was granted by deed, without limitation, the appellees waived any action for damages on account of the change of grade except such as might result from an improper or negligent construction of the improvement.” (Emphasis added.) 209 Ind. 495 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lovett““A man of prudence generally relinquishes a project when he finds the cost greatly out of proportion to its benefits, and in the interest of the public this rule would apply to the agents of the State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Flamme
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.