36 Del. Ch. 416 - Wright v. Husbands’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1981
19 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 Clendaniel v. Conrad · Mayor of Wilmington v. State · Taylor v. Smith
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Therefore, considering the constitutional provision in the light of the circumstances which led to its adoption, and the evil it was designed to prevent, we are of the opinion that Article II, § 19 prohibits only the enactment of special laws relating to physical changes in streets and roads."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tusso v. Smith · Tusso v. Smith“* * * laying out, opening, alteration or maintenance of any road or highway which forms a continuous road or highway extending through at least a portion of the three counties of the State * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tusso v. Smith““The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law relating to ... the creation or changing the boundaries of school districts .... ””
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.