Condry v. Laurie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It was suggested that complainants could acquire access to the county road by a rear route. Complainants protested that it might cost as much as $500 to build a bridge over the creek.... [I]/’ the cost of constructing a road over one’s land ... would require unreasonable expense out of proportion to the value of the land, then there exists such necessity for a way over the grantor’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.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 100 Md. App. 144 - Beck v. Mangels

2. “[W]e do not intend to pass the one typewritten copy of the record from member to member of this Court so that each one may hunt up for himself what the appellant is discussing in his brief.... [W]e do not intend to permit counsel to impose upon us the burden of work, which should have been done by them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. ACandS Inc. v. Asner