Hewitt v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Anderson v. DeVries (1950), 198 Cal. App. 2d 684 - Wall v. Rudolph (1961)
29 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 Anzalone v. Metropolitan District Commission · Parsons v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad · Swensen v. Marino · Baldwin v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Mahon v. Tully
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that an easement granted in general and unrestricted terms is not limited to the uses made of the dominant estate at the time of its creation, but is available for the reasonable uses to which the dominant estate may be devoted.”
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.