Worthington v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably O'CONNOR v. Gragg (1960), City of Palmetto v. Katsch (1923)
56 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All roads which have been laid out and established by authority of the commissioners’ courts are public roads. Rev. Stats., art. 4315 [now Art. 6702, V.A.C. S.]. A road not originally established under the statute may become public by long-continued use and adoption as such by the county commissioners with the assent of the owner or by prescription. A road may also become public in the sense that the public have the right to use it, by dedication.””
2 later decisions 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.