Washington Avenue’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
1 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Saulsbury v. Bethlehem Steel Co. (1964), William Carson v. Sewer Commissioners of Brockton (1901)
1 district · 35 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 Livingston v. Mayor
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In questions of power exercised by agents, it is sometimes the misfortune of communities to he carried, step by step, into the exercise of illegitimate powers without perceiving the progression, until the usurpation becomes s® firmly fixed by precedents, it seems to he impossible to recede or to break through them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ [T] he superadded value of the property, caused by the local improvement of which this property has a peculiar advantage beyond that of others not in like circumstances”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“against all unjust, unreasonable and palpably unequal exactions under any name or pretext.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. AMIDON v. Kane
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.