2000 Pa. Super. 71 - Phillippi v. Knotter’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
June 2014
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Tosh v. Witts · 384 Pa. Super. 176 - Tomlinson v. Jones · SOLTIS Et Ux. v. Miller · 413 Pa. Super. 1 - Mann-Hoff v. Boyer · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Conroy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) The titles to the alleged dominant and servient properties must have been held by one person[;] 2) This unity of title must have been severed by a conveyance of one of the tracts[;] 3)The easement must be necessary in order for the owner of the dominant tenement to use his land, with the necessity existing both at the time of the severance of title and at the time of the exercise of the easement. An easement by necessity is always of strict necessity. An easement by necessity never exists as a mere matter of convenience.... [A]n easement by necessity is extinguished when the necessity from which it resulted ceases to exist.”
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.