Brown v. Haley’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Davis v. Marshall Homes, Inc. (2003), Smith v. Ware (1992)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 81 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 Bates v. Devers · Wright v. Castles · Ulbricht v. Friedsam · Cushman Virginia Corporation v. Barnes · Middleton v. Johnston
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An easement ... is a privilege to use the land of another in a particular manner and for a particular purpose. It creates a burden on the servient tract and requires that the owner of that land refrain from interfering with the privilege conferred for the benefit of the dominant tract.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the principle test to determine whether claims are part of the same cause of action is whether the same evidence will support both claims.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably necessary for the enjoyment of the easement,”
3 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.