State v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true test is in the general use by all persons for public purposes for an uninterrupted period of 20 years or more.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Allen
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.