154 Ohio St. 286 - Trattar v. Rausch’s Empirical Analysis

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76 state decisions

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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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a right, without profit, created by grant or prescription, which the owner of one estate, called the dominant estate, may exercise in or over the estate of another, called the servient estate, for the benefit of the former.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1st National Bank v. Mountain Agency, LLC, Ca2008-05-056 (5-11-2009) · Harvest Land Co-Op, Inc. v. Sandlin, Ca2007-07-161 (10-20-2008)

2. “"... it is required that the use shall have been so long continued prior to the severance and so obvious as to show that it was meant to be permanent; a mere temporary provision or arrangement made for the convenience of the entire estate will not constitute that degree of permanency required to burden the property with the continuance of the same when divided or separated by conveyance to different parties.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fitzpatrick v. Palmer · Koestel v. Buena Vista Public Service Corp.

3. ““Easements may be implied in several ways — from an existing use at the time of the severance of ownership in land, from a conveyance describing the premises as bounded upon a way, from a conveyance with reference to a plat or map or from necessity alone, as in the case of ways of necessity. (Citing authority.)””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Watson v. Neff, 08ca12 (4-29-2009) · Hughes v. Lippincott