Kaiko v. Dolinger’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Weiman v. Weiman (1982), Ventres v. Goodspeed Airport, LLC (2005)
52 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 Wadsworth Realty Co. v. Sundberg · Putnam, Coffin & Burr, Inc. v. Halpern · Sachs v. Toquet · Horowitz v. F. E. Spencer Co. · Hawley v. McCabe
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prescriptive easement cannot be acquired unless the use defines its bounds with reasonable certainty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To acquire a right of way by prescription, there must be a uses [sic] which is open, visible, continuous and uninterrupted for fifteen years and made under a claim of right. General Statutes 47-57 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.