Romanchuk v. Plotkin’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Contested Cases of St. Otto's Home v. Minnesota Department of Human Services (1989), Yorkdale Corp. v. Powell (1965)
1 district · 40 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 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Patterson · Mt. Holyoke Realty Corp. v. Holyoke Realty Corp. · Wiesel v. Smira · Beardsley v. Crane · Berlin v. Robbins
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a separation of title; (2) the use which gives rise to the easement shall have been so long continued and apparent as to show that it was intended to be permanent; and (3) that the easement is necessary to the beneficial enjoyment of the land granted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The doctrine of implied grant of easement is based upon the principle that where, during unity of title, the owner imposes an apparently permanent and obvious servitude on one tenement in favor of another, which at the time of severance of title is in use and is reasonably necessary for the fair enjoyment of the tenement to which such use is beneficial, then, upon a severance of ownership, a grant of the dominant tenement includes by implication the right to continue such use. That right is an easement appurtenant to the estate granted to use the servient estate retained by the owner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Mullen · Werner v. Sample
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.