Dudley v. State Roads Commission’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘AND THE GRANTORS DO FURTHER GRANT’ unto the State of Maryland to the use of the State Roads Commission, its successors and assigns, any and all right whatsoever of the Grantors, their heirs, successors and assigns, of any means whatsoever of ingress and egress between the THROUGH HIGHWAY and the remaining property across the line which is designated ‘RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF THROUGH HIGHWAY’ to the end that there never will be any vehicular, pedestrian and/or animal access to or from said through highway and their remaining property across those lines which are so marked on the above mentioned plats except by means of such public road connections to EXPRESSWAYS and/or private road connections to controlled access arterial highways as the ‘COMMISSION’, may construct, or permit to be constructed.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Roads Commission v. Jones