Jerome v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1823
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia (1831), Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)
5 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 25 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.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In ordinary cases, this latter remedy fan action at law] has been found •amply sufficient for the protection of property; and I do not think it advisable, upon any principle of justice or policy, to introduce the chancery remedy as its substitute, except in strong and aggravated instances of trespass which go to the destruction of the inheritance, or where the mischief is remediless.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The general power is to enter upon and nse all lands necessary for the prosecution of improvements, and to make canals, feeders, locks, dams, etc., doing, nevertheless, no unnecessary damage; and then comes the provision that any lands taken and appropriated for any of the purposes aforesaid shall be paid for and vest in' the state. There was no need that the fee of lands used only for a temporary purpose should be vested in the public. If the owner is paid for the damage occasioned by the temporary use of his lands, it is all that he can justly require, and this compensation the state is bound to give him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““I do not know a case in which an injunction has been granted to restrain a trespasser merely because he was a trespasser, without showing that the property itself was of peculiar value, and could not well admit of due recompense, and would be destroyed by repeated acts of trespass.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Stuart
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.