Beaman v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2010
4 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 In re Dunnuck · Hermann v. Yater · In re Antcliff · Debolt v. Carter · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Christie
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.
“The long-standing statutory dedication scheme in Indiana has been that the owner "who plats a street and acknowledges the plat and has it approved and recorded grants to the municipality, in trust for the public, title to an easement for a street, and no further assent or acceptance by the public is required so far as the grant is concerned."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who may lay off any town or addition thereto, or any addition to any city or town, or any subdivision of any lots of lands within the limits of any city or town, shall, previous to the sale of any lots in such town, addition or subdivision, cause to be recorded in the recorder's office of the proper county a correct plat of such town, addition or subdivision, with the public grounds, streets and alleys properly marked, showing the length and width of each, and with the lots regularly numbered and the size thereof marked upon the plat. Every donation or grant to the public, or to any individual, religious society, corporation or body politic, noted as such on such plat, shall be considered a general warranty to the donee or grantee on such plat named or indicated, for the purposes intended by the donor or grantor. Before offering such plat for record, the maker shall acknowledge the same before some officer authorized by law to take and certify acknowledgments of deeds, a certificate of which acknowledgment shall be, by the officer taking the same, annexed to such plat and recorded therewith. No plat not so made and acknowledged shall be entitled to record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) platting of the street, (2) acknowledgement, (3) proper municipal approval, and (4) recording which 'grant[ ] to the municipality, in trust for the public, title to an easement for a street'”
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.