Thomas v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2012
17 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 Klutts Resort Realty, Inc. v. Down'Round Development Corp. · Chesson v. . Jordan · Brown v. Gaskins · Hall v. Clayton · Parker v. T & C Development 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The owner of a servient estate may place gates across an easement so long as the gates are ‘necessary for the enjoyment of his property, and are not so numerous and of such size and construction as to constitute an unreasonable burden on the right of way.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tanaka v. Sheehan
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.