Bryant v. Gustafson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

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

1. ““* * * He who purchases a lot with reference to a plat is deemed to have thereby purchased, as appurtenant to the lot, all the advantages, privileges, rights, and easements which the plat represents as belonging to the lot and as belonging to the owner thereof as a resident of the platted area, and this principle is applicable not merely to the roads and streets upon which the purchased lot abuts, but to. all roads and streets of advantage or utility to the platted area as a whole.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kane v. State

2. ““* * * It is not merely the street or alley upon which the purchased lot may abut that the purchaser has the privilege of using or enjoying, but all the easements, rights, privileges, and advantages which the plat represents.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kane v. State

3. “[t]he use of the word 'person' authorizes a dedication to any number of persons, in that the singular includes the plural.”). . Maryland’s former”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Laase v. 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe