Abbott v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1831
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Gragg (1960), Owens v. Hockett (1952)
25 state decisions — followed in 15 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he act of throwing open the property to public use, without any other formality, is sufficient to establish the fact of a dedication to the public; and if individuals, in consequence of this act, become interested to have it continue so, as by purchasing property, [etc.], the owner cannot resume it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barstow v. State
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.