Oliver v. Newberg’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““'Whether a county road becomes a street, when included within the corporate limits of a city, depends upon the intention of the legislature, as gathered from the city charter, general laws and the whole course of legislation on the subject: 2 Dillon, Munic. Corp., § 676 et seq.; State ex rel. v. Commrs. Putnam County, 23 Fla. 632 ( 3 South. 164 ). Where the legislature has expressly conferred upon the corporation control of the county roads within its boundaries, and excepted the territory within it from county control for road purposes, there is no question but that such highways become streets, and subject to all the burdens of streets. This is definitely stated in 27 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2 ed.), 104, and recognized in Elliott, Roads & Streets (2 ed.), § 116.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patterson v. Ashland

2. ““When the city proceeded to act under the charter of its creation, it thereby accepted the relinquishment and grant of all county roads within its territory, and ipso facto they became streets.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patterson v. Ashland