McPhillips v. Brodbeck’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably 514 So. 2d 877 - Gaston v. Ames (1987), Boucher v. Boyer (1984)
31 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 Highland Realty Co. v. Avondale Land Co. · Chichester v. Kroman · Smith v. Birmingham Realty Co. · Jackson v. Birmingham Foundry & Machine Co. · Lybrand v. Town of Pell City
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where one acquires a lot in a platted subdivision abutting on a street designated in the plat, he thereby acquires an easement of access to and from his lot over any of the public ways shown on the plat. This right is an incorporeal hereditament appurtenant to the lot in question, and is entitled to protection equally with [the] corporeal estate if its use is materially threatened.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Did all the `owners of the land abutting the street or alley (or that portion of the street or alley desired to be vacated)' join `in a written instrument declaring the same to be vacated,' properly acknowledged and recorded, and did the city give its assent, `evidenced by a resolution adopted by such governing body, a copy of which, certified by the clerk or ministerial officer in charge of the records of the municipality attached to, filed and recorded with the written declaration of vacation,' and was a `convenient means of ingress and egress to and from this property afforded' by any other street or alley?"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.