Gardner v. Hope’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2017
12 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 Riley v. Buchanan · Carter v. Shrout · Tolliver v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Wilson v. Pioneer Coal Co. · Bordes v. Leece
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled in this state that a general and long-continued use of a pass-way by the public as a right will create the right to continue the use and the owner of the land traversed by the passway who- allows the public to use it as a highway for a long period of years under a claim of right will be estopped from denying a dedication to the public. Long-continued user by the public will constitute an implied acceptance of the dedication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Freeman v. Dugger
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.