Wilson v. Chestnut’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Public Lands Access Ass'n v. Boone & Crockett Club Foundation, Inc. (1993), Keebler v. Harding (1991)
50 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 Scott v. Weinheimer · Glantz v. Gabel · Thisted v. Country Club Tower Corp. · O'CONNOR v. Brodie · Le Vasseur v. Roullman
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`* * * A use of a neighbor's land based upon mere neighborly accommodation or courtesy is not adverse and cannot ripen into a prescriptive easement. Thus where the use of a way by a neighbor was by express or implied permission of the owner, it was held that the continuous use of the way by the neighbor was not adverse and did not ripen into a prescriptive right * * *'" Wilson v. Chestnut, 164 Mont. at 491 , 525 P.2d at 27 . (Citing 2 Thompson on Real Property (1961 Replacement), Easements, § 345). See also Ewan v. Stenberg (1975), 168 Mont. 63 , 541 P.2d 60 .”
3 later decisions 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.