Gallegos v. Conroy’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2008
12 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 Summerford v. Board of Com'rs. · Lee County v. Mayor of Smithville · Cardoza v. Pillsbury · State v. Board of Commissioners · Heninger v. Peery
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature has designated the state highway commission as that body which has control over our state highways. It is the body which determines the necessity of such construction. As such body, it has the power of acquiring rights of way and the power to designate and lay out state highways.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he paramount purpose of the creation of the highway commission was to subserve the public interest, looking to the construction and maintenance of a complete system of highways in the state[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“general policy of all legislation . . . is to centralize control of the state highways in the highway commission.”
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.