Daugherty v. Sowers’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 1992
21 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 Anderson v. Birkeland · Montgomery v. Somers · Keiter v. Berge · Mueller v. Drobny
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is a sufficient user is peculiarly a question of fact and varies according to the circumstances of each case. The intent to dedicate is the same in all cases. The user to establish that intent may be of short or of long duration, depending upon the character and extent of the use as well as upon the nature of the surrounding area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intent need not be express, and in fact need not actually exist in the owner’s mind, but may be implied from acts and conduct of the owner which are unequivocally and convincingly indicative of a dedication and upon which the public has a right to and does rely.”
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.