Olson v. McRae’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1988
10 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 City of Fairbanks v. Schaible · State v. Schifsky · Ahlstrom v. Cummings · DeArmond v. Alaska State Development Corporation · Hamerly v. Denton
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the road was used during the tenures of [the homesteaders] ... But the road was initially established by these homesteaders for their own use. It had no other substantial use except when occasion made it convenient for persons to visit [the home- steaders7 either socially or for business purposes or simply out of curiosity. It cannot be implied from this that either [of the homesteaders] intended to dedicate the road for public use. Nor can such intent be presumed from the fact that the homestead claimants apparently did not attempt to stop sightseers and hunters from occasionally using the road. Dedication is not an act or omission to assert a right; mere absence of objection is not sufficient. Passive permission by a landowner is not in itself evidence of intent to dedicate. Intention must be clearly and unequivocally manifested by acts that are decisive in character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Demoski v. New
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.