West v. Probst’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
February 1958
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · Lampman v. . Milks · Howell v. Estes · Weems Steamboat Company of Baltimore City v. People's Steamboat Company D · Jackson v. Stevenson
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.
““Under our view of the law as applied to the deed and the findings of fact by the trial court, West and the corporations holding under him assumed the duties and obligations of those who operate public utilities, and as such they have the right to discontinue their operation. San Antonio Street Ry. Co. v. State, 90 Tex. 520 , 39 S.W. 926 , 35 L.R.A. 662 , 59 Am.St. Rep. 834; East Ohio Gas Co. v. City of Akron, 81 Ohio St. 33 , 90 N.E. 40 , 26 L.R.A.,N.S., 92, 18 Ann.Cas. 332; Weems Steamboat Co. of Baltimore City v. People’s Co., 214 U.S. 345 , 29 S.Ct. 661 , 53 L.Ed. 1024 , 16 Ann. Cas. 1222; Laighton v. City of Carthage, C.C., 175 F. 145 . However, under the facts of this case, equity would require that the patrons of the two companies be given a reasonable time in which to provide themselves with water and sewerage otherwise, or a substitute for such sewerage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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