Brooks v. Reedy’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2021
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 Craig v. O'BRYAN · Porter v. Huff · Mount v. Dillon
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.
“The gates . . . have not been maintained with such continuity and intent for any definite seven-year period as would destroy the rights of the public to travel and maintain the road. . . . Any interruption of the maintenance of the gates, such as leaving the gates down in the winter so that the cattle could use the open range or the use of the road at a time when the gates were down, would be such as to make maintenance of the gate for a new period necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutter v. Medlock“It may well be that those using the roadway did not always put up the gaps; however, be that as it may, the important fact is that the fence and gates were in place for the statutory period, and, under the language in Mount v. Dillon, supra, the fact that the gates were not always closed does not make any difference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hutter v. Medlock
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.