Milhau v. . Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1950 · most notably Blair v. City of Chicago (1906), Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co. (1882)
3 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Special powers are given to such corporations to lay out, open, and repair streets, as a trust to be held and exercised for the benefit of the public, from time to time, as occasion may require; and the general rule is that those powers cannot be delegated to others, nor be effectually abridged, by any act of the municipal corporation, without tlie express authority of the legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the general rule that the fee is vested in the corporation would not be absolutely incompatible with a remaining fee in adjoining proprietors, under special circumstances.”
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.