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← 94 NC 487 - Stewart v. . Frink

Stewart v. . Frink’s Empirical Analysis

1886

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
4
states following
February 1985
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 1985

1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A public highway is one established by public authority, and kept in order by the public, under the direction of the law; or else it is one used generally by the public for twenty years, and over which the public authorities have exercised control, and for the reparation of which they are responsible. (Emphasis added.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. ““It would be unjust, as well as ungracious, to take advantage of his [the landowner’s] generous permission to use his land for public convenience, and the law will not allow this to be done.””
    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.