LeMay v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2026
1 district · 22 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 Willets v. Langhaar · Littlefield v. Hubbard · Burns v. Gallagher · Cadwalader v. Bailey · Whittenton Manufacturing Co. v. Staples
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n easement over conveyed property, although not expressly reserved, may nevertheless be impliedly created in favor of the grantor of the servient estate.... In determining whether the grantor impliedly reserved an easement over the conveyed land, the focus is properly upon the probable intent of the parties. Tiffany on Real Property, (3d ed.) § 781; 25 Am.Jur.2d Easements § 28. The understanding of the parties to the conveyance giving rise to the implied easement, therefore, is relevant. Also probative of the intent of the parties are the circumstances surrounding the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An easement over conveyed property, although not expressly reserved, may nevertheless be impliedly created in favor of the grantor of the servient estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An easement may also be impliedly created without a preexisting use when access to the property conveyed requires trespass.”
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.