Graves v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1985 · most notably Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Means (1914), City of Indianapolis v. Emmelman (1886)
1 district · 27 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Beck v. . Carter · Caldwell v. . Murphy · Young v. Harvey · Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis R. W. Co. v. Bowen · Hervey v. Parry
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor am I justified in making excavations, either on the path which I have permitted other persons to traverse, or so near a public road that travelers, in the ordinary aberrations or casualties of travel, may stray or be driven over (377) the line and be injured by falling into the excavation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Monroe v. . R. R.
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.