Brusseau v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2015
7 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 First Church of Christ v. Revell · Mahan v. Mahan · Larson v. Chicago, M. & St. P. R'y. Co. · Stannus v. Heiserman · Evans v. City of Brookings
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[Ojwnership of land once had is not to be presumed to have been parted with; but the acts and declarations relied on to show a dedication should be unequivocal and decisive, manifesting a positive and unmistakable intention, on the part of the owner, to permanently abandon his property to the specific public use....’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Notwithstanding § 31-3-1, the mere use by the public of any route of travel along or across public or private land, or the right-of-way of any railroad company for any period, shall not operate to establish a public highway and no right shall inure to the public or any person by such use thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Sponheim“Conduct on the part of the owner that is clearly expressive of an intention to dedicate usually amounts to a dedication, if acted upon by the public in a manner which clearly justifies the inference of an acceptance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Sponheim
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.