Ewertsen v. Gerstenberg’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably Hays v. St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church (1902), Cuneo v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. (1929)
1 federal appellate · 34 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 Trustees of Columbia College v. . Thacher · Jackson v. Stevenson · Hutchinson v. Ulrich · Star Brewery Co. v. Primas · Coughlin v. Barker
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * or, in short, it may be said that where, from all of the evidence, it appears that it would be against equity to enforce the restriction by injunction, relief will be denied, and the party seeking its enforcement will be left to whaever remedy he may have at law.”, citing cases. (Emphasis ours.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We do not mean to say that an easement abandoned in part will be held as abandoned altogether; for where it is abandoned pro tanto only, and a material and beneficial part remains, it will be protected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Zwolak““There was no uniform limitation adopted or acquiesced in when the one originally prescribed had been abandoned.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Zwolak
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.