Dygert v. Schenck’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1957 · most notably Yates v. Jones National Bank (1907), McFarlane v. City of Niagara Falls (1928)
70 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Had the town agents actually taken the bridge under their care, and repaired it for a long time, there might have been a question for the jury whether they had not made it a town bridge.””
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.