Casella v. Sneierson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Murphy v. Mart Realty of Brockton, Inc. (1965), Uliasz v. Gillette (1970)
38 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 Fox v. Union Sugar Refinery · Erickson v. Ames · Prentiss v. City of Gloucester · Wellwood v. Havrah Mishna Anshi Sphard Cemetery Corp. · Hodgkins v. Bianchini
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although there is some authority to the contrary, see McKenzie v. Gleason, 184 Mass. 452, 458-459 , 69 N.E. 1076 , 100 Am.St.Rep. 566 ; Wood v. Culhane, 265 Mass. 555, 558-559 , 164 N.E. 622 , we think it must be regarded as settled in this Commonwealth that a description which bounds property by the side line of a way is no less effective to give the grantee an easement in the way * * * than a description which bounds the property by or on a way. Gaw v. Hughes, 111 Mass. 296 ; Cole v. Hadley, 162 Mass. 579 , 39 N.E. 279 ; Driscoll v. Smith, 184 Mass. 221 , 68 N.E. 210 ; Hill v. Taylor, 296 Mass. 107, 116 , 4 N.E.2d 1008 . * * * we think that the judge erred in holding that the deed under which the plaintiff claims gave her no easement over Wall Street as continued beyond the point where it joins her lot and that of the defendants. * * * To be sure, Wall Street along the plaintiff’s westerly boundary had not been laid out at the time of the conveyance to Burkiwicz; nor was it shown on any plan referred to in his deed. But it was sufficiently designated by the reference in the deed so that the grantor and those claiming under him would be estopped to deny its existence, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Lippincott““Beginning at the southwesterly corner of the granted premises at a point in the easterly line of said Wall Street at land of Hughes; thence running northerly on the easterly line of said Wall Street one hundred eight (108) feet more or less to a point * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hughes v. Lippincott
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.