Daywalt v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2021
23 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 Greenwalt v. McCardell · Kripp v. Curtis · Orpin v. Morrison · Gayetty v. Bethune · Blum v. Weston
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`by operation of law when it is established that (1) there is a strict necessity for the right-of-way, as when the claimant's property is landlocked and (2) the dominant and servient tenements were under the same ownership at the time of the conveyance giving rise to the necessity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`the basic reason for the creation of a way of necessity, namely, to permit communication with the outside world, is not present.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rathbun v. Robson
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.