Maynard v. Bara’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Wareing v. Schreckendgust (1996), Public Lands Access Ass'n v. Boone & Crockett Club Foundation, Inc. (1993)
29 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 Lindblom v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. · State ex rel. Dansie v. Nolan · Quinn v. Anderson · Lasby v. Burgess · Pope v. Alexander
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the passage of a road has been for years barred by gates or other obstructions to be opened and closed by the parties passing over the land, has always been considered as strong evidence in support of a mere license to the public to pass over the designated way.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“use was accompanied by some action on the part of the public authorities having jurisdiction of the subject, tantamount to a declaration that the particular road was a public highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Richter v. Rose
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.