Donnelly v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1992 · most notably Wilson v. Board of Trustees (1890), State ex rel. Milwaukee Medical College v. Chittenden (1906)
37 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objection that the ditch varied materially from the line fixed in the petition is disposed of in Neis v. Franzen, 18 Wis. 537 [a road case]. The supervisors had the right to make any suitable variation from such line, in their discretion, so that they did not so far depart from the line in the petition as to be materially another and different line.” (Page 476.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bonnewell v. Lowe
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.