Gulick v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1942
7 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 O'Brien v. People ex rel. Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co. · Field v. Barling · Gulick v. Hamilton · Dexter v. Tree · Barber v. Allen
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““None of the abutting owners had respected the alley as an unobstructed one ten feet in width. . . . That the defendants in error had themselves encroached upon the strip with areaways built out eighteen inches, and between the area-ways an unloading chute or cellar entrance which projected into the strip approximately three feet and six inches, leaving six feet and six inches for the uses of an alley, and a permanent building occupied by Leseure at the north end obstructed the strip two feet to the entire height of the building, and for a width of twenty-two feet. The bill alleged the construction by the Walker Opera House Company over the alleyway, supported by iron columns and maintained until the year 1914, and stated that it did not interfere with free and unobstructed passage along the alleyway, and that any person having occasion therefor passed back and forth without hindrance until June 1, 1915, when the plaintiff in error began an excavation in the alley for the erection of his new building.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If an alley is public, abutting owners have a right to light, air, and ventilation [citing authorities], but if the alley is not public that is not true as a rule of law [citing authority], and the character and uses of a private alley can be fixed and regulated by the parties interested. ... A reservation of light and air for the use of buildings will not be implied, but must ordinarily be expressed, although there must be no interference in that or any other particular with the proper use of a right of way within the terms of the grant. Barber v. Allen, 212 Ill. 125 , 72 N. E. 33 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.