Abbott v. Prothro’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1986
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Peebles v. McDonald · Ball v. Messmore · Stevens v. French
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . it is shown that the appellees employed three different surveyors. . . to survey the line before the trial;”
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.