Haffner v. Bittell’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1977
8 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 Godman v. Jones
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is of course true that a prescriptive easement in the lands of another is founded wholly upon use as a matter of right for the statutory period, but the extent of such use under claim of right is not necessarily measured by wagon tracks or beaten path. The extent of plaintiffs’ use . . . was unquestionably marked by fences, rather than wagon tracks. . . .” 248 S.W. at 223 .”
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.