Wright v. Barlow’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1969
6 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 Forde v. Libby · Pollard v. Rebman · Baldridge v. Zigler
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where owners of adjoining lots orally agreed upon a private way between their lots and constructed their improvements with relation thereto, each was estopped from disputing the other's right to such way, and that estoppel extended to their grantees, *Page 487 who took with notice of the way, although it was not expressly reserved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Packard v. . Smart
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.