Close v. Swanson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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.

1. ““Of the correctness of the rule established by that case, and the decisions cited in support thereof, we have no doubt; but in the case at bar the county board stopped short of making any order concerning, laying out, or establishing the road in question. Hence the road involved in this controversy does not come within the rule announced in that case. If an order, however irregular, had been made by the county board, laying out or establishing the road in controversy, the rule in Lydick v. State would govern.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lee v. Eyerly

2. ““Where a public road has been established by proceedings .under the statute and opened and traveled by the public for more than ten years, the public thereby acquires an easement therein, and the court will not examine the original proceedings for the laying out of the road and determine whether or not they were valid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lee v. Eyerly