Allen v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Bourne Ex Rel. Bourne v. Manley (1968), Tripp v. Harryman (1981)
43 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 National Surety Co. v. State Bank · Jeude v. Sims · Hecker v. Bleish · State v. Berry, 24233 (mo.banc 1923) · Leverone v. Weakley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t may be stated as a general rule that, in a suit to establish or protect privileges with respect to a right of way the location and limits of which are in dispute, ‘the right of way involved should be definitely described in the judgment, at least so that its location, with the aid of such description, could readily be located; and the width of the way should be made clear.’ 28 C.J.S. Easements § 113b, p. 819.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Helgeson v. Ochs · Helgeson v. Ochs““ * * * [L]ess detail and precision should be and is demanded in describing and defining the route of a country road or way of access across a farm * * * than in fixing and limiting a driveway easement between city lots. * * * And the same detail and precision logically should not be, and usually is not, required with respect to the route of a long-established and well-defined road * * * as with respect to the route of a road not so established and defined. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Huter v. Birk
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.