Van Gerpen v. Gemmill’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 1998
6 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 Griggs v. Harding County · Hanigan v. Minnehaha County
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall be the duty of the board of township supervisors to arrange for the construction, repair, and maintenance of all secondary roads within the town-ship_” ... We refer to this duty of the township board for the purpose of showing that the legislature has directly placed upon this board the duty and responsibility for the construction, repair and maintenance of secondary roads, in the same manner that it has placed such responsibility for the County Highway System upon the county highway superintendent and the board of county commissioners ... and upon the State Highway Commission for the State Trunk Highway System ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keogan v. Bergh“It shall be the duty of the board of township supervisors to arrange for the construction, repair, and maintenance of all secondary roads within the township.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willoughby v. Grim
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.