Gailey v. McFarlain’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably McDonald v. Richard (1943), White v. Hodges (1942)
4 federal appellate · 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 Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · Baird v. Atlas Oil Co. · St. Landry Oil & Gas Co. v. Neal · Clark v. Tensas Delta Land Co. · English v. Blackman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the owner of the estate to whom the servitude is due, is prevented from using it by any obstacle which he can neither prevent nor remove, the prescription of nonusage does not run against him as long as this obstacle remains.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boddie v. Drewett
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.