Rives v. . Dudley’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 1971
4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is the principle? It is this: If the *Page 334 owner does an act whereby he signifies his intention to appropriate land to the use of the public as a highway or street or square to be used by the public as a pleasure ground or the like, and individuals in consequence of this act purchase property or build houses with reference to its being so used by the public, and become interested to have it so continue , he is precluded from resuming his private rights of property over the land, because it would be fraudulent in him to do so. When individuals have become interested in (460) reference to the use of the land by the public the dedication takes effect immediately.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Clark.
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.