Root v. . Wadhams’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1958 · most notably Paine v. . Chandler (1892), Wells v. . Garbutt (1892)
25 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 Lampman v. . Milks · Ogden v. . Jennings · Adams v. . Conover
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Kothing passes by the word appurtenance except sugIi incorporeal easements or rights or privileges as are strictly necessary and essential to the proper enjoyment of thei estate granted. A mere convenience is. not. sufficient to thus create such a right or easement.” Root v. Wadhams, 107 N. Y. 384, 394 ( 14 N. E. 281 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Book v. West
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.