Godman v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 1966
24 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 Lebus v. Boston · Muir v. Cox · Smith v. Pennington · Swango v. Greene · Downing v. Benedict
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not an uncommon thing for persons who have enjoyed the permissive use of an easement for a long period to indulge the hope, which eventually ripens into a belief, that the use has been hostile and under a claim of right. This is so especially true where the owner of the servient estate is lenient in his requirements, that it may be said the greater the accommodation the greater the danger. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Childers v. Groves
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.