Barrett v. Pilgrim’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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.

1. “The Court is without power, however, to close a public road in private litigation between individuals unless such action is predicated upon a finding that there has been a valid order of the Board of Supervisors closing the road, spread upon its minutes, if it is a county road, or that similar official action has been taken by the Mississippi State Highway Commission and is reflected by its official records if it is a state road or highway. ( 317 So.2d at 383 )”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Medina v. State Ex Rel. Summer · 422 So. 2d 270 - City of Wiggins v. Breazeale

2. “. . . and, until an unequivocal surrender by the Board of Supervisors of the right of the public to the road, the owner of the fee had no right to close it. ( 56 Miss. at 26 )”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Medina v. State Ex Rel. Summer · 422 So. 2d 270 - City of Wiggins v. Breazeale

3. “[m]ere non-user [sic] by a part or all the general public, or use by some members of the general public of a public road as a 'lovers' lane, whiskey cache or as a place for dumping garbage, will not constitute such an abandonment as to deprive it of its public character ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John T. Seyfarth, Jr. v. Adams County Board of Supervisors