Olson v. Mullen’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably Boulevard Plaza Corp. v. Campbell (1959), Holt v. Swenson (1958)
41 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 Wiesel v. Smira · Romanchuk v. Plotkin · Berlin v. Robbins · Pioneer Mining Co. v. Bannack Gold Mining Co. · Sime v. Jensen
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a separation of title; (2) the use which gives rise to the easement shall have been so long continued and apparent as to show that it was intended to be permanent; and (3) that the easement is necessary to the beneficial enjoyment of the land granted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an implied easement must be determined at the time of severance, and a subsequent change of conditions will not defeat or create an implied easement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.