Donnelly v. Cowsill’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Robidoux v. Pelletier · Shalvey v. Zoning Board of Warwick · Jerry Brown Farm Ass'n, Inc. v. Kenyon · Vallone v. CRANSTON, DEPT. PUB. WORKS · Volpe v. Marina Parks, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demonstrat[ing] that the land was dedicated by its owner as a street or a road and that the public has accepted the dedication”
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.