Hurst v. Stowers’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2025
4 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 Johnson v. Johnson · Norman v. Smedley · McCrory v. Evans · Messinger v. Messinger · Board of County Commissioners v. Lloyd
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.
“To establish an easement for roadway by prescription, the land in question must have been used by the public with the actual or implied knowledge of the landowners, adversely under claim or color of right, and not merely by the owners' permission, and continuously and uninterruptedly, for the period required to bar an action for the recovery of possession of land or otherwise prescribed by statute; when these conditions are present, the easement for roadway exists by prescription, otherwise not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. MANAR v. WESSON · Brown v. Mayfield
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.