Meyer v. Jefferson County’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1980
4 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 Consolidation Coal Co. v. Mann · Commonwealth v. Geary · Fordson Coal Co. v. Howard
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The description of the parcel conveyed by this deed is drawn from the plans of the proposed road on file at the office of the Department of Highways in Frankfort, Kentucky, and this conveyance is made in contemplation of the construction and maintenance of said road according to said plans, which are hereby made a part of this deed.””
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.