Carrier v. Lindquist’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2026
16 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 Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · Papanikolas Bros. Enterprises v. Sugarhouse Shopping Center Associates · 89 Ill. 2d 221 - Rexroat v. Thorell · System Concepts, Inc. v. Dixon · City of San Antonio v. Olivares
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the existence of an easement is also a highly fact-dependent question.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[uln-der Utah law, landowners whose property abuts public streets, alleys, and public ways that appear on a plat map are entitled to a private easement over those public ways.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'is reserved for the innocent defendant, who proceeds without knowledge or warning that he is encroaching upon another's property rights'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.