Dubinsky v. Cama’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Goldstein v. Beal (1945), Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth (1942)
43 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 Boston & Albany Railroad v. Reardon · Willets v. Langhaar · Parsons v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Gloucester Water Supply Co. v. City of Gloucester · Chandler v. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corp.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Mere nonuser of an easement created by grant does not show abandonment. [Citations omitted.] There are no acts of the defendants or their predecessors in title manifesting a design to relinquish their rights of way. Ignorance or disregard of their easements is not an intentional renouncement and surrender of a known right. In order to establish abandonment of easements such as these there must be ‘acts by the owner of the dominant estate conclusively and unequivocally manifesting either a present intent to relinquish the easement or a purpose inconsistent with its further existence [citations omitted].’ ””
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.