Condry v. Laurie’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 100 Md. App. 144 - Beck v. Mangels (1994), Jurgensen v. New Phoenix Atlantic Condominium Council of Unit Owners (2004)
107 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 Smith v. Shiebeck · Greenwalt v. McCardell · Oliver v. Hook · Cox v. Forrest · Harlan v. Town of Bel Air
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to establish an easement by prescription, it is necessary to prove an adverse, exclusive and uninterrupted use of the way for twenty years. Adverse use means use without license or permission. Where a person has used a right of way for twenty years unexplained, it is fair to presume that the use has been under a claim of right, unless it appears to have been by permission. Cox v. Forrest, 60 Md. 74, 79 ; Smith v. Shiebeck, 180 Md. 412 , 24 A. 2d 795 .””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“" Of course, if the cost of constructing a road over one's land as a means of access to the public highway would require unreasonable expense out of proportion to the value of the land, then there exists such necessity for a way over the [neighbor's] land as to justify recognition of a way by implication . But the court will not recognize a way of necessity if another road to the public highway can be made without unreasonable expense, even though the other road may be much less convenient. Mere inconvenience will not be sufficient to justify the finding of a way of necessity."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he doctrine is based upon public policy,-' which is favorable to full utilization of land and the presumption that parties do not intend to render land unfit for occupancy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bacon v. Arey · Sese v. Leota
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.