Bacon v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1976
20 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 Village of Carthage v. . Frederick · McCabe v. . City of New York · Eldridge v. Fawcett · Darling v. Mayor of Jersey City · Darling v. Mayor
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here there is no vested right in the name of the street or in the number originally assigned to a house upon the street. The power to change the name of streets is akin to the power vested in the boards of aldermen and common councils to change the grade of streets or to close them altogether.” (p. 318.)”
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.