Ladd v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1928
15 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 Merritt v. . Village of Portchester · Dowell v. City of Portland · Hawthorne v. City of East Portland · Massing v. Ames
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the respondent objected by written protest at the inception of the proceedings, and he thereby challenged the act of the council and its officers. It cannot be said that he encouraged the improvement. The charter made no provision that before a person could be heard in an equitable proceeding he must tender the amount of benefits. If an owner of property were obliged to do this as a condition precedent before he could maintain a suit, it would tend to do away with every jurisdictional requirement in the proper levy of special assessments, as the council of a city could, without observing the requirements of a charter, order the improvement of a street and compel the owner of the property benefited to tender the amount of the benefits before he could enjoin the officer from executing a void process.””
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.