Pickar v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
November 2000
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gruenhagen v. Larson · Ehle v. Prosser · Wojahn v. Johnson · Barnes v. Milligan · Tamm, Inc. v. Pildis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is at least an inference, if not a presumption, that a use is permissive where the owners of the two estates have a close family relationship. This inference of a permissive use applies in this case where one brother bought property adjoining his two brothers' property.”
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.