Dyer v. Compere’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Kennedy v. Bond (1969), Martinez v. Martinez (1979)
48 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 Tong v. Feldman · Hammond v. Hammond · Dewire v. Hanley · Fendall v. Miller · Doan v. Allgood
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The owner of the servient estate is under no obligation, in the absence of special agreement, to repair or maintain the way, the rule being that he who uses the ’ easement must maintain it in proper condition or suffer the resulting inconvenience. * * * ” (Citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The rights of one holding an easement in the land of another are measured by the nature and purpose of the easement; and, so far as consistent therewith, the owner of the fee may make any reasonable use desired of the land in which the easement exists.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The extent of an easement is to be determined by a true construction of the grant or reservation by which it is created, aided by any concomitant circumstances which have a legitimate tendency to disclose the intention of the parties. Where, however, the grant or reservation is specific in its terms, it is, of course, decisive of the limits of the easement. * * * ” (Citations omitted)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. Bond
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.