Low v. Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1974
17 state decisions
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 Boom Company v. Patterson · Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. v. Worcester · State v. Doepke · State v. James · Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad v. State
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No railroad corporation shall take any land for the use of such corporation, without the consent of the owner thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.