Romano v. Thrower’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The owner of any tract or body of land, no part of which tract or body of land is adjacent or contiguous to any public road or highway, shall have and may acquire a convenient right-of-way, not exceeding in width 30 feet, over the lands intervening and lying between such tract or body of land and the public road nearest or most convenient thereto provided written approval is obtained from *Page 852 the municipal government and the planning board of such municipality."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. DeWitt v. Stevens

2. ““In the establishment and condemnation of such right-of-way, no road or right-of-way shall be established through any person’s yard, garden, orchard, stable lot, stable, gin house or curtilage without the consent of the owner....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wright v. Tallant

3. “'[t]he triers of the facts [have] the right to consider all the physical facts of both properties as to the proper location of the right-of-way and the damage resulting to defendant by reason thereof.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. DeWitt v. Stevens