Ross v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably City of Indianapolis v. Kingsbury (1884), Cummins v. City of Seymour (1881)
68 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 Morgan v. Railroad Co. · State v. Berdetta · Cox v. Louisville, New Albany, & Chicago Railroad · Mayor of Macon v. Franklin · Haynes v. Thomas
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The instructions do not declare that an individual can have a private way by prescription in a public highway. They do' assert that he may have a special right or interest in a public highway upon which his land abuts. This is good law. A man’s interest in a public highway which affords means of getting to or from his land is a right which even the Legislature can not take from him without compensation.””
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.