Paterson v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1982
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 Tietjen v. Meldrim · Danielson v. Sykes · Matter of City of N.Y. (Northern Blvd.) · Gerstley v. Globe Wernicke Co. · Merrill Railway & Lighting Co. v. City of Merrill
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.
“[W]here the owner of a tract lays out streets upon a map not for purposes of description or location, but for the purposes of establishing private streets and sells the subdivided lots with reference to such map, he thereby creates by implication a private easement in favor of lot owners upon the streets thus declared to be for their use.”
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.