Davis v. Spragg’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1980
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 17 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 Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co. · Lahr v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. · People ex rel. Faulkner v. Harris · Field v. Barling · Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. v. City of Chicago
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Moreover, the occupation of the highway, in this instance is for purely a private purpose. Even where a city is given exclusive power over its streets, such power must be exercised for the good of the general public, and a city can not authorize obstructions in its streets for merely private purposes.” (Citing many cases.)”
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.