Brehm v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Chevy Chase Land Co. v. United States (1999), 24 Md. App. 100 - Zimmerman v. Summers (1975)
1 district · 25 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 Vogler v. Geiss · Dawson v. Western Maryland Railroad · Shipley v. Fink · Partridge v. First Independent Church · Houston v. Laffee
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that a right of way over land is an interest in the land which cannot (apart from prescriptive user and necessity) be created except in the mode and manner prescribed by the recording statutes. Hays v. Richardson, 1 G. & J. 366 ; Baltimore and Hanover R. Co. v. Algire, 63 Md. 319, 320 . ‘A permanent interest in land cannot be acquired by a mere license, and a right of way being an interest in land, it is equally well settled that such an interest cannot be acquired at law in this state, except in the mode provided by the statute, that is, by deed executed and recorded.’ Baltimore and Hanover R. Co. v. Algire, supra, page 323. And a mere license is from its nature revocable at the will of the licensor, at least when the license is for the use of the licensor’s land. In Addison v. Hack, 2 Gill, 221, 226 , this Court followed the distinction, widely adopted elsewhere, between a license to use the licensor’s land and a license to make some use of the licensee’s own land which affects the licensor; if the licensee has acted upon the license to make the use of his own land, that license is held not revocable, but a license to use the land of the licensor is always revocable at law, because irrevocability would mean a conveyance of a permanent interest in the land in violation of the statutes. In this state, what has been termed execution of the license, that is to say, the expenditure of any labor or expense in reliance upon it, does not give a permanent, irrevo”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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