Lenhart v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 1990 · most notably Milford Borough v. Burnett (1927), Hostetter v. Commonwealth (1951)
37 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 Commonwealth v. Moorehead · City of Pittsburg v. Epping-Carpenter Co. · Gailey v. Wilkinsburg Real Estate Trust Co. · Pittsburgh v. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad · Mitchell v. Bovard
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Particularly is this conclusion to be reached where the enabling act provided that the owner should ask for the appointment of viewers within one year, if he felt himself aggrieved by the location of the new highway, and failed to do so: . . .””
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.