Bowles v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1993
16 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The proof showed that complainant, his neighbors, and predecessors in title had used a roadway north through defendants’ land for more than fifty years; that the land north of complainant was mostly in timber; that when holes would form in the road complainant would travel around these rough places. The proof further showed that a hard-surfaced road was on the south side of complainant’s land, and that the road used by complainant over defendants’ land was one of convenience in going to said pike road to the north and in going to church. “(1-3) The complainant insists that the road was one of necessity. However, the complainant cannot successfully claim a way of necessity, because it is not shown that his land and the land of the defendants were at one time owned by a common grantor, or that the immediate grantor of the dominant tract was at the time of the litigation the owner of the servient estate.” 180 Tenn. p. 323, 175 S.W.2d p. 313 (Emphasis Supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.