Drieth v. Dormer’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Kuhlmann v. Platte Valley Irrigation District (1958), State Ex Rel. Game, Forestation & Parks Commission v. Hull (1959)
26 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 Ferguson v. Standley · Collins v. Alabama Power Co. · Hawley v. McCabe · Dudgeon v. Bronson · Lincoln National Bank v. Virgin
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.
“`If an easement is acquired by prescription, the purpose for which the easement may be used is limited by the user under which the easement was acquired. The presumption of a grant is afforded only because possession amounting to a continuous claim of title has been acquiesced in for a period necessary to give a prescriptive right. Therefore, the presumed grant can never extend further than the user in which the other party has acquiesced.' * * *”
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.