Causey v. Lanigan’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Blue Ridge Poultry & Egg Co. v. Clark (1970), Fischer v. Voldemars Grinsbergs (1977)
24 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 Plaza v. Flak · Andrzejczyk v. Advo System, Inc. · Craig v. Kennedy · 129 Cal. App. 454 - Bernstein v. Dodik · Davis v. Wilkinson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, the plaintiffs were entitled to the rebuttable presumption that their use, and that of their predecessors in title, was adverse. The question then becomes whether the defendants proved that the use by the [plaintiffs’ predecessor in title] and the plaintiffs was permissive, and not adverse. Circumstantial evidence may not be used to establish permissive use in cases involving joint driveways. There must be a positive showing that an agreement existed.”
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.