Read v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2010
most recently cited
2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Easements are, by their nature, rights possessed by the owner of one piece of land in another piece of land belonging to a different person; if, therefore, the seisin of the two pieces is united in one owner, the right must necessarily cease to be an easement, for it becomes one of the rights of property to which all owners of land are entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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