Hopper v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1969 · most notably 68 Cal. App. 554 - Eastman v. Piper (1924), 17 Cal. 2d 23 - Elliott v. McCombs (1941)
24 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 Smith v. Worn · Dennis v. Wilson · Gould v. Stafford · Spensley v. Valentine · Kramer v. Knauff
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When there is in the deed no declaration of the intention of the parties in regard to the nature of the way, it will be determined by its relation to other estates of the grantor, or its want of such relation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tusi v. Jacobsen
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.