Phillips v. Bonadies’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Reynolds v. Soffer (1983), Klein v. DeRosa (1951)
61 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 Bigelow Carpet Co. v. Wiggin · Barber v. Bailey · Alderman v. City of New Haven · Shea v. Gavitt · Bradley's Fish Co. v. Dudley
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the character of the use, whether adverse or permissive, is left to be determined as an inference from the circumstances of the parties and the nature and character of the use.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Use by express or implied permission or license cannot ripen into an easement by prescription. . . [The] user must be adverse, — that is, a user unaccompanied by any recognition of a right in the owner to stop such use, either express or reasonably to be inferred from the manner and circumstances of the user.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A permissive user therefore as distinguished from one exercised under a claim of right is not to be inferred from mere passive acquiescence.”
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.