Molyneux v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 1949
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Tholl v. Koles · Eble v. State ex rel. Bond · Smith v. Smith · Crawford v. Board of Commissioners
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem that the public might directly accept the offer of congress by general and long-continued use, and some of the decisions collected in the work referred to [6 Fed. Stat. Ann., pp. 498, 499] are to that effect; but whether so or not, it is clear that an effectual acceptance may be made by the officers to whom the matter of establishing highways has been committed by the legislature.” (p. 832.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hughes v. Veal
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.