Murdaugh v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pearson v. Koster · Missouri Soybean Ass'n v. Missouri Clean Water Commission · Missouri Health Care Ass'n v. Attorney General · Schweich v. Nixon · Farmers Drainage Dist. v. Sinclair Refining Co.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the use of a non-exclusive easement by the owners of the servient tenement substantially interferes with the dominant tenement's use of the easement is a question of fact to be determined by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoesz v. Wright“[t]he fact that a grant of an easement does not include a catalogue of the myriad of imaginable interferences does not sanction the unmentioned”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoesz v. Wright“[t]he servient estate owner may not make the easement less useful or convenient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stoesz v. Wright
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.