Goodsell v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
4 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1989 · most notably Harbor Island Marina v. BOARD OF CTY. COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT CTY. (1979), People's Counsel v. Maryland Marine Manufacturing Co. (1989)
4 district · 21 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Again in making the improvements, the proprietor is not compelled, as has been argued, to commence them at the shore, but may begin at the outer extremity of the projected improvement, and extend the same to the bank of the river, which it clearly appears was the design in the present case. “The Code provides that such improvements ‘shall pass to the successive owners of the land to which they are attached, as incident to their estate.’ It does not follow from this, that the title to the improvements when made, may not be severed from that of the mainland and be conveyed to and held by other persons having no interest in the original tract. The right of the riparian proprietor to such improvements, necessarily carries with it such power of alienation as owner thereof.””
2 later decisions 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.