Feldstein v. Segall’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Moore v. McAllister (1958), Green v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (1970)
46 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 Condry v. Laurie · Greenwalt v. McCardell · Perellis v. Mayor of Baltimore · Cox v. Forrest · Bogley v. Barber
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e do not find it necessary to pass upon this contention. If Habersack and Croucher, at the time of their deed to plaintiffs, had by prescription acquired a consummate right of way, their deed, and the appurtenance clause in it, is sufficient to convey such a right of way. If at the time of their deed, they had not acquired a prescriptive right of way, tacking plaintiffs’ use from January, 1946 to September, 1947 would not establish such a right of way. If the evidence does not show adverse, exclusive and continuous use for twenty years before January, 1946, then there is no evidence to show such use for twenty years before September, 1947.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . the rules for appeals, the equity rules and the general rules of practice and procedure should properly be construed together. Nevertheless the long history of the rules for appeals and the very different history of the general rules of practice and procedure should not be ignored in a quest for factitious verbal unity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A right of way of prescribed width does not grow with the size of trucks and other automobiles. If tautology could clarify the plain words `ten foot alley', it is at least obvious that rights in a ten foot alley do not include use of automobiles too large for a ten foot alley.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.