Moss v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2000
12 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 Kirkland v. Kirkland · Dolske v. Gormley · 160 Cal. App. 2d 471 - Keeler v. Haky · Ford v. Ward · Green v. Mutual Steel Company
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . We cannot hold in line with the trial court's ruling that by the employment of the terms `full and free' and `all purposes' the use was intended to be exclusive to the grantees and for all purposes connected with their property. The document clearly indicates that the right which is unrestricted, or `free and full' is the right to `pass and repass' across the easement, and even the extent of this right is limited by the use of others who have the same, or like, right. The phrase `all purposes' as used in the instrument does not imply that all rights in connection with the use of the dominant estate are conveyed, but only the right to pass and repass for all purposes connected with the use of grantees' land. . . . "Any claim that the deed makes no reservation or exception in favor of the grantors is without merit. . . . [A]n easement deed does not `grant' anything to the servient estate since it retains all that which the deed does not give away. . . . (Citation omitted.)"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“full and free right[s] . . for all purposes connected with the use of said grantee's land, to pass and repass along, over and upon said private road . . .”
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.