Schmid v. McDowell’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Graham v. MacK (1985), Tanner v. Dream Island, Inc. (1996)
2 district · 33 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 Thisted v. Country Club Tower Corp. · 24 Md. App. 100 - Zimmerman v. Summers · Finn v. Williams · Robertson v. Robertson · Herrin v. Sieben
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.
“[w]here an owner of land conveys a parcel thereof which has no outlet to a highway except over the remaining lands of the grantor or over the land of strangers, a way of necessity exists over the remaining lands of the grantor. Similarly, a way of necessity is found when the owner of lands retains the inner portion conveying to another the balance, across which he must go for exit and access.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashby v. MAECHLING · Graham v. MacK“distinguished from other implied easements on the simple ground that [a developed way] need not be in existence at the time of conveyance....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ashby v. MAECHLING“`the basic reason for the creation of a way of necessity, namely, to permit communication with the outside world, is not present.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rathbun v. Robson
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.