Ray v. Nansel’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Ariegwe (2007), State v. Sartain (2010)
68 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 Eschenbacher v. Anderson · Guthrie v. Hardy · Renner v. Nemitz · Carkeek v. Ayer · Albert v. Hastetter
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“easement is a non-possessory interest in land-a right which one person has to use the land of another for a specific purpose or a servitude imposed as a burden upon the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bullock v. Fox
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.