Gordon v. Hoy’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Pyramid Development, L.L.C. v. D&J Associates (2001), Preshlock v. Brenner (1987)
17 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 Cushman Virginia Corporation v. Barnes · Stephen Putney Shoe Co. v. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“granted by deed, the ordinary rule which governs in the construction of other writings prevails, namely, that the rights of the parties must be ascertained from the words of the deed, and the extent of the easement cannot be determined from any other source.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“light of the circumstances surrounding the parties and the land at the time the deed was executed.”
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.