Low v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1979
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blake v. Portsmouth & Concord Railroad · Rogers v. Bowen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The word ‘may’ in a statute is to be construed ‘must’ or ‘shall,’ where the public interest or rights are concerned, and the public or third persons have a claim de jure that the power shall be exercised.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. State
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.