Price v. Eastham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “make specific factual findings regarding ... the original purpose and use of the easement; any changes that have been made in the use of -the casement; and, finally, the reasonableness of that change, taking into account such factors as the speed of the changes in use, damage to the estate, and the reasonable expectations of the servient landowner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price v. Eastham

2. “(1) depend on new or controverted facts; (2) are not closely related to appellant's arguments at trial; and (8) could not have been gleaned from the pleadings, unless the new issue raised establishes plain error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eagle v. State, Department of Revenue

3. “opinion of February 9, 2000, [in which] the superior court note[d] that evidence in the record suggests that the trail was used only occasionally for many years by a small number of people.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Price v. Eastham