Willard v. Pike’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Bunten v. Rock Springs Grazing Ass'n (1923), Clark v. City of Burlington (1928)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Trustees of the Wesleyan Academy v. Inhabitants of Wilbraham · Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy v. Exeter · State v. Potter · Inhabitants of Westhampton v. Searle · Bellows v. Weeks
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although, under our statute, ownership is all that is expressly required, it is probable that the legislature did not intend to exempt property simply because owned by an academy.. . . The ownership must undoubtedly be, not for speculative purposes, but for the appropriate use and benefit of the institution as an academy or a college in carrying out the purposes of its incorporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without personal advantage or profit to the corporators, except as they share with the whole public in the general advantage by promotion of education and good morals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“for actual use and convenience of the academy in carrying on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.