Guild v. Hinman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2019
9 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 Davis v. Bruk · Saltonstall v. Cumming · Drummond v. Foster · Fine Line, Inc. v. Blake · Ware v. Public Service Co. of New Hampshire
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he use of an easement may vary from time to time with what is necessary to constitute full enjoyment of the premises[,] ... [a]ny changes in use ... must be consistent with the purpose for which the easement was originally granted.” Guild v. Hinman, 1997 ME 120, ¶ 6 , 695 A.2d 1190 (citations omitted) (quotation marks omitted). Similarly, we have interpreted the scope of prescriptive easements narrowly”
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.