Snell v. . Levitt’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1992 · most notably Black v. Elkhorn Mining Co. (1896), 16 E.H. Smith 202 - Lewis v. . New York Harlem R.R. Co. (1900)
53 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 Vogler v. Geiss · King v. Murphy · Steere v. Tiffany · Allyn v. . Thurston
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothing short of an intention so to abandon the right would operate to that effect, unless other persons have been led by such acts to treat the servient estate as if free of the servitude, and the same could not be resumed without doing an injury to their rights in respect to the same.””
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.