Ploof v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 47 Cal. 2d 374 - People v. Roberts (1956), United States v. Hensel (1983)
13 federal appellate · 23 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 Wabash Railway Co. v. Savage · Hyde v. Town of Jamaica · Voegeli v. Pickel Marble & Granite Co. · Proctor v. Adams · Palmer v. Village of St. Albans
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are many cases in the books which hold that necessity and an inability to control movements inaugurated in the proper exercise of a strict right, will justify entries upon land and interferences with personal property that would otherwise have been trespasses.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broad v. Anderson“‘ ‘ This doctrine of necessity applies with special force to the preservation of human life. One assaulted and in peril of his life may run through the close of another to escape. 37 Hen. VII, pl. 26.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broad v. Anderson“This doctrine of necessity applies with special force to the preservation of human life. . . . One may sacrifice the personal property of another to save his life or the lives of his fellows.”
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.