Dormer v. Dreith’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1988
20 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 81 Ind. App. 328 - Abel v. Love · Lantry v. Parker · Engle v. Hunt · Agnew v. City of Pawnee City · McComb v. Saxe
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““WHEREFORE IT IS CONSIDERED, ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED that the defendants be and they hereby are permanently enjoined from inter fering with or molesting in any way the plaintiffs use of said road and bridge above described; and that the easement for the use of said road is forever quieted in the plaintiffs and in the NW% of the SE% of said Section. “And it is further ordered that the defendants are permanently enjoined from interfering with the bridge above referred to or the maintenance or repair of the road by the plaintiffs; and it is further ordered that that part of the road North of the lateral and extending West to the East line of the NW% of the SE% of said section is subject to the use of the defendants in their farming operations, including as a turn row, but that no paid of said road running North from said lateral is subject to any use by the defendants; and it is further ordered that said road is appurtenant to the NW^ of the SE% of said section.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drieth v. Dormer““* * * the evidence does not justify granting an easement for a road over 20 feet in width, and the decree is hereby limited to this width, and no more. “Finding no other errors in the record, the decree of the trial court is modified as to the width of the road, and affirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drieth v. Dormer
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.