Sprague v. Biggs’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
23 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 Spiller v. Atchison T & S F Ry Co · City and County of Denver v. Denver Union Water Co Denver Union Water Co · Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. v. Slattery · Northern Pacific Railway Company v. State of North Dakota · Louisiana Ry Co v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The property managed and controlled by the trustees is devoted to a public use and the trustees on behalf of the trust estate are entitled to reasonable compensation for such use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.