302 Pa. Super. 412 - Flaherty v. DeHaven’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2025
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 Taylor v. Heffner · Srednick v. Sylak · In MATTER OF CONVEYANCE OF LAND BELONGING TO CITY OF DuBOIS · 241 Pa. Super. 1 - Thomas v. Deliere · Nord v. Devault Contracting Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as the degree of necessity decreases, the need to refer to other factors suggestive of an intent to create an easement increases substantially.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) whether the claimant is the conveyor or the conveyee, (b) the terms of the conveyance, (c) the consideration given for it, (d) whether the claim is made against a simultaneous conveyee, (e) the extent of necessity of the easement to the claimant, (f) whether reciprocal benefits result to the conveyor and the conveyee, (g) the manner in which the land was used prior to its conveyance, and (h) the extent to which the manner of prior use was or might have been known to the parties.”
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.