Connell v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2009
1 district · 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 Chapman v. Schearf · Gibson v. Sharp · Allen v. Smith · Bridle Trail Association v. O'SHANICK · Johnson v. Rasmus
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is necessary to be shown in [public road] cases is an adverse use on the part of the public, either for a sufficient time to create a bar under the statute of limitations, or a user by the public under such circumstances and for such a period of time, with the acquiescence of the owner, as to imply on his part a dedication of the land and a prescriptive right thereto on the part of the public by its acceptance and appropriation as a public highway, all of which may be shown by facts and circumstances, as well as positive proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““But no such description was essential to the injunctive relief sought and granted, for nothing in the record indicated that plaintiffs or defendants have any difficulty in recognizing and following the route of ‘the old road’ or ‘the roadway as it now runs’ across defendants’ tract, plaintiffs did not seek establishment and location of an easement over a precisely-demarcated and legally-described strip . . . and the injunctive decree sought and rendered oper ates in personam . . . and does not run with the land.” (Citing authorities.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mueller v. Pittard“The fact that [the disputed road] may be a great benefit to the defendant’s farm and used by him and others in getting in and out therefrom does not deprive it of its public character so long as it is open for use by the public generally, and is being used by such of the public as desire or have occasion to use it; nor is its public character affected by the fact, if it be a fact, that only a few may use it.”
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.