Sime v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1975
6 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 Thompson v. Multnomah County · Bewley v. Graves · Johns v. Marion County · Woodruff v. County of Douglas · State v. Officer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the purposes of the statutory requirements of the petition is, no doubt, to place interested parties in the possession of information so distinct and definite as that they might know with reasonable certainty in what manner and to what extent they will be affected by the establishment of the proposed road.””
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.