Ruthstrom v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2024
11 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 Trosper v. Board of Commissioners · Amusement Syndicate Co. v. City of Topeka
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only special right which an abutting owner has in a public highway is that of access to his premises. When he has passed from his land into the road his right to travel there is not different from the right enjoyed by other members of the community.” (p. 680.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Borton v. Mangus“an injunction will not be granted at the suit of a private citizen to protect public interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. Nelson
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.