Goodwin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
11 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Tupper v. Dorchester County · 455 Pa. Super. 158 - Soderberg v. Weisel · Hancock v. Henderson · Binkley v. Rabon Creek Watershed Conservation District
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except where the location and dimensions are determined by the instrument or circumstances surrounding creation of a servitude, they are determined as follows .... (3)[u]nless expressly denied by the terms of an easement ... the owner of the servient estate is entitled to make reasonable changes in the location or dimensions of an easement, at the servient owner’s expense, to permit normal use or develop ment of the servient estate, but only if the changes do not (a) significantly lessen the utility of the easement, (b) increase the burdens on the owner of the easement in its use and enjoyment, or (c) frustrate the purpose for which the easement was created.”
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.