Ogden City v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
May 1975
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Poole v. City of Kankakee · Bowman v. City of Kansas City · Backus v. Lebanon · State Ex Rel. Bremerton Bridge Co. v. Superior Court · Town of Perry v. Thomas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are satisfied that under our statutes the public necessity or expediency for the opening of a street within corporate limits is a question for determination by the governing board of a municipality and that its conclusion in that respect properly expressed by ordinance or resolution is conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bountiful v. Swift
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.