102 N.C. App. 462 - Williams v. Abernethy’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
18 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 Chesson v. . Jordan · Higdon v. Davis · Strickland v. Shew · Jacobs v. . Jennings
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Easement by grant Deeds of easement are construed according to the rules of construction of contract so as to ascertain the intention of the parties as gathered from the entire instrument at the time it was created. . . . “[W]hen an easement is created by express conveyance and the conveyance is ‘perfectly precise’ as to the extent of the easement, the terms of the conveyance control.” . . . [W]hen the width of an easement is not specifically defined in the grant, . . . then the “previously undefined width is then established by the rule of reasonable enjoyment.” Under the doctrine of reasonable enjoyment, the width of an undefined easement is determined by considering the purpose of the easement and establishing a width necessary to effectuate that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]f the conveyance is silent as to the scope of the easement, extrinsic evidence is inadmissible as to the scope ... of the easement. However, in this . . . situation, a reasonable use is implied. The authors assume extrinsic evidence is admissible to determine what is a reasonable use.”
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.