Preshlock v. Brenner’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Brenner v. Lawyers Title Ins. Corp. (1990), Community Feed Store, Inc. v. Northeastern Culvert Corp. (1989)
26 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 City of Pasadena v. California-Michigan Land & Water Co. · 152 W. Va. 91 - Sanders v. Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Inc. · Pettus v. Keeling · Gordon v. Hoy · Haines v. Galles
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, when a tract of land is subjected to an easement, the servient owner may make any use of the land that does not unreasonably interfere with the use and enjoyment of the easement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the first easement is not exclusive, subsequent concurrent easements that are not unreasonably burdensome or inconsistent with the original easement are valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no prescriptive right can be acquired in property affected with a public interest or dedicated to a public use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Eastham
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.