Hedderly v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1988
17 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 Townshend v. Goodfellow · Carlson v. Duluth Short Line Railway Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Construing it as giving the railroad company the right to locate the easement by a subsequent location of the line would leave it in the nature of a ‘float,’ which, as it would be more onerous to the grantee than a definitely located easement, the court would avoid, if it could be done by a probable interpretation of the terms of the clause.””
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.