Nellis v. . Munson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Mitchell v. . Thorne (1892), G.L. P.J.R.R. Co. v. . N.Y. G.L.R.R. Co. (1892)
38 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 Post v. Pearsall · Cronkhite v. . Cronkhite · Huntington v. . Asher · Fassett v. Smith · Pitkin v. Long Island Rail-Road
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are therefore of the opinion that the easement conveyed was an estate in fee, and required for its conveyance a deed, executed in the manner prescribed by the statute, to affect the right of a subsequent purchaser. We are much impressed with the apparent equities of the plaintiff's claim, in view of the fact that the subsequent grantees of the servient estate took title with notice of the easement claimed by the plaintiff, but we see no way of escaping the effect of the plain words of the statute.”
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.