Guerard v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2012
14 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 Downing v. Bird · Zetrouer v. Zetrouer · Anthony v. Kennard Building Co. · J. C. Vereen & Sons, Inc. v. Houser · Irion v. Nelson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing to show that the use made by the public was inconsistent with the rights of the owner to his use and enjoyment of the land, which supports rather than overcomes the presumption that any such use was permissive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[F]or prescription to be properly effective [there must be] adverse possession inconsistent with the owner's use and enjoyment of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“and his predecessors in title have used the roadway”
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.