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← 215 VA 683 - Markham v. Hall

Markham v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 1997
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Craig v. Kennedy · Williams v. Green · Reid v. Garnett · Stanley v. Mullins · Causey v. Lanigan

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “hi order to establish a private right of way over the lands of another by prescription it must appear that the use of the roadway by the claimant was adverse, under claim of right, exclusive, continuous, uninterrupted, and with knowledge and acquiescence of the owner of the land over which it passes, and that such use has continued for a period of at least twenty years.”
    2 later decisions 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.