Lake v. Riutcel’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1999
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 State Ex Rel. Wahl v. Speer · State Ex Rel. School District of Affton v. Smith · Town of Wilson v. City of Sheboygan · Breuninger v. Hill · Walker v. Sundermeyer
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.
““The question of what is a ‘public place’ within the requirement as to posting of notices is the subject of the annotation in 2 A.L.R. 1008 . As there pointed out, the term ‘public place’ is relative, and not absolute, and the test which will generally determine the question is whether posting in that particular place will fulfil the purpose of giving the publicity required by the nature of the notice. The first case appearing in the annotation says: ‘What is a public place for one purpose is not for another. A blacksmith shop in the country, or a tree at the intersection of public roads, would be a public place within the contemplation of the statute, * * * but it would clearly be an abuse of discretion thus to advertise town lots in a place 20 miles distant.’ Cummins v. Little, 16 N.J.Eq. 48. “There is but little direct authority on the question in this state, but there is close analogy between the situation here presented and that in Walker v. Sundermeyer, 271 Mo. 579, 582 , 197 S.W. 102 , 2 A.L.R. 1005, 1007 . The statute involved in that proceeding (to organize a drainage district) required posting in at least five of the most public places in the proposed district. It was there held that the statute was complied with by posting the notices on trees and fence posts along private roads where they would be most likely to be seen by anyone passing through the district, where there was no post office, store, shop or schoolhouse, and no public road in the district. The presen”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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