Harris v. Helens’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1964
13 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 Carter v. City of Portland · Baker v. Vanderburg · Oregon City v. Oregon & Cal. Railroad · Christian v. Eugene
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except in cases where a municipality may not have the charter powers to accept a dedication^ an acceptance by a municipality by its duly authorized officers may be express by deed or by some matter of record, or unless prohibited by statute or ordinance, the acceptance may be implied from some act or .acts showing that the municipality has assumed control and possession of the property dedicated, or the like acts: 13 Cyc. 469.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.