McDonald v. Sargent’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cox v. Forrest · Rhodes v. Whitehead · Browne v. Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the easement was imposed by prescription only, and not by grant or reservation in chain of title, defendants’ nonuser for a period equal to that of its creation results in its loss.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kraft v. Miller
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.