Forde v. Libby’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Harber v. Jensen (2004), Coumas v. Transcontinental Garage, Inc. (1951)
30 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 Gustin v. Harting · Shannon v. Timm
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a perpetual right of way of the owners for the time being, and their heirs and assigns.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Pike
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.