Hamerly v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Basista v. Weir (1965), The Wilderness Society v. Rogers C. B. Morton, Secretary of the Interior (1973)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 932
Relies on Bardon v. Northern Pac R Co · Lovelace v. Hightower · Leach v. Manhart · Hatch Bros. v. Black · Red River & Lake of the Woods Railroad v. Sture
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Bjefore a highway may be created, there must be either some positive act on the part of the appropriate public authorities of the state, clearly manifesting an intention to accept a grant, or there must be public user for such a period of time and under such conditions as to prove that the grant has been accepted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen [he] enters into possession or use of another's property, there is a presumption that he does so with the owner's permission and in subordination to his title.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right of way for the construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby granted.””
3 later decisions 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.