Russell v. Dyer’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1976
8 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 Whittier v. Varney · Pritchard v. Brown · Williams v. Amory · Mead v. Harvey · Mather v. Chapman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an old maxim of the law, that every statute authority, to divest the title of one without his consent and transfer it to another, must be strictly pursued, or the title will not pass;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe“How we might hold in this case if there had been a dwelling-house in the township, but no place more public, we have no occasion to inquire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe“it is hardly possible to conceive any inhabited place which would not have more than one public place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahoon v. Coe
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.