Welsh v. . Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably Conabeer v. . N.Y. Central H.R.R.R. Co. (1898), 1 E.H. Smith 338 - Haight v. . Littlefield (1895)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Snell v. . Levitt · Crain v. Fox · 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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who acquires title by deed to an easement appurtenant to land has the same right of property therein as he has in the land and it is no more necessary that he should make use of it to maintain his title than it is that he should actually occupy or cultivate the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McHugh v. Haley
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.