3 E.H. Smith 163 - Wormser v. . Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 1964 · most notably Ackerman v. . True (1903), Conabeer v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co. (1898)
40 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 Jerome v. Ross · McHenry v. . Jewett · Hoey v. . Gilroy · Gray v. Manhattan Railway Co. · T. B.R.R. Co. v. . B., H.T. W. Ry. Co.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature, by virtue of its general control over public streets and highways, has power to authorize structures in the streets which, without such authority and under the common law, would be held to be encroachments or obstructions, and this power it may delegate to the governing body of a municipal corporation.”
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.