Connehan v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1859
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1928
9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public do in fact acquire an interest in lands. . . . It is not supported upon the ground that it is a grant, but because the law considers it in the nature of an estoppel in pais, which debars the owner from recovering it. The law does not presume a grant, but rather the contrary, nor does it deprive the owner of his title to his land; but, while the dedication continues, says to him that he shall not, in violation of good faith to the public and by dishonest and immoral acts, assert his right of possession to the exclusion of the public.””
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.