Werner v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1999
14 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 Romanchuk v. Plotkin · Olson v. Mullen · Huhn v. Ryan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who purchases land with knowledge or with actual, constructive or implied notice that it is burdened with an easement in favor of other property ordinarily takes the estate subject to the easement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nolan v. Stuebner“reasonably necessary for the fair enjoyment of the other part of the estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corbett v. Whitney
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.