Godfrey v. Pilon’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2010
22 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 Lindblom v. Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. · Sheridan County Electric Co-Op., Inc. v. Ferguson · Pioneer Mining Co. v. Bannack Gold Mining Co. · Spaeth v. Emmett
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“essential to use and enjoyment of the premises as permanently improved at the time of the conveyance of the servient estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashby v. MAECHLING
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.