Clark v. Mossman’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Huyck v. . Andrews · Kutz v. McCune · Omaha Southern Railway Co. v. Beeson · Blakely v. Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Railway Co. · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Shepherd
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The existence of a public highway cannot be ignored by a purchaser of the land with which the title of the strip must pass subject to the easement indicated. In purchasing the four-acre tract, plaintiff must be presumed to have taken notice- of the public highway. Both parties, it is to be assumed, contracted with reference to its existence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schafroth v. Ross
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.