Anderson v. DeVries’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Klein v. Dove (1954), M.P.M. Builders, LLC v. Dwyer (2004)
3 federal appellate · 37 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 Reilly v. Selectmen of Blackstone · Slocum v. Natural Products Co. · Lipsky v. Heller · O'Brien v. Murphy · Commonwealth v. Richardson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he primary meaning of the word beach is the land between the ordinary high water mark and the low water mark[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the instant case, we are dealing with a seashore resort where residents of a summer colony are given access to the beach. A right of way which would not permit them to travel seaward beyond the high water mark would not furnish access to the water for bathing and swimming and such a way would be worthless to them. It would be inconsistent with the manifest intention of the parties if these deeds and instruments were so construed as to deprive these owners of [inland lots] from reaching the water. . . . The way to the beach carried with it the right to use the beach for the purposes for which the way was obviously intended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Olsen“[t]he chief inducement for the purchase of [the inland parcels] was the right to use the beach for swimming, bathing, and sun bathing”
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.