Mason v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Guthrie v. Hardy (2001), MEADOW LAKE ESTATES HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION v. Shoemaker (2008)
2 district · 26 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 Steer, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · Interstate Production Credit Ass'n v. Desaye · Public Lands Access Ass'n v. Boone & Crockett Club Foundation, Inc. · Halverson v. Turner · Gabriel v. Wood
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 easement is not specifically defined, it need,only be such as is reasonably necessary and convenient for the purpose for which it was created. It is sometimes held ... where the grant or reservation of an easement is general in its terms, that an exercise of the right, with the acquiescence and consent of both parties, in a particular course or manner, fixes the right and limits it to that particular course or manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guthrie v. Hardy“Where an easement is specific in nature, the breadth and scope of the easement are strictly determined by the actual terms of the grant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he extent of a servitude is determined by the terms of the grant. ...”
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.