Ann Smith v. The Corporation of Washington’s Empirical Analysis
61 U.S. 135 · 1857
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1958 · most notably Bauman v. Ross (1897), Transportation Company v. Chicago (1878)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Goszler v. The Corporation of Georgetown · Lansing v. Smith · Commissioners of Homochitto River v. Withers · Green v. Borough of Reading
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Streets cannot be opened and kept in repair, or made safe or convenient for public use, without being made level, or as nearly so as the nature of the ground will permit. Hills must bo cut down and hollows filled up, or, in other words, the road must be ‘graded’ or ‘reduced to a'certain degree of ascent or descent,’ which is the proper definition of the verb ‘to grade.’ ””
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.