Steele v. County Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2017
1 district · 16 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 Sadler v. Langham · Commissioners Court v. Hearne · Ex parte Lowe · Ex parte Cresswell · Long v. Commissioners' Court
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" Having been taught by experience the imperious necessity of some power to establish private roads, so that there may be secured to the owners of lands, shut in by lands of co-terminous proprietors, a way of egress and ingress [from and to] the public roads, thereby preserving and enhancing the value, promoting the owner's full and lawful use and enjoyment of his property, and serving the public interest, by putting the citizen in position to perform public services ..., [the framers of the Constitution of 1861] introduced the provision, that the General Assembly may secure by law to individuals and corporations the right of way over the lands of other persons and corporations. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lockridge v. Adrian
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.