Snow v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 2012
2 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 Stickley v. Township of Sodus · Alton v. Meeuwenberg · Chapman v. City of Sault Ste. Marie · Murphey v. Township of Lee · Davis v. . Guardian Assurance Company
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public has used this road for a longer time than would be required to establish a way by user, but use alone is not sufficient. There must be an acceptance by the public at least by taking* over the control and maintenance of some portion of the alleged highway.””
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.