Sheftel v. Lebel’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

cited by 41 later decisions

states following

October 2021

most recently cited

2 district · 34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Patterson v. Paul (2007), 149 N.C. App. 289 - BUNN LAKE PROPERTY OWNER'S ASS'N v. Setzer (2002)

2 district · 34 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 Opinion of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Storer v. Freeman · Michaelson v. Silver Beach Improvement Ass'n, Inc. · Boston Waterfront Development Corp. v. Commonwealth · Labounty v. Vickers

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“derived from the presumed intent of the grantor, is to be ascertained from the words used in the written instrument, construed when necessary in the light of the attendant circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 92 Mass. App. Ct. 1129 - Pearson v. Bayview Assocs., Inc. · 95 Mass. App. Ct. 670 - Chamberlain v. Badaoui
“The public has, however, no right of perpendicular access across private upland property, i.e. , no right to cross, without permission, the dry land of another for the purpose of gaining access to the water or the flats in order to exercise public trust rights; doing so constitutes a trespass.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Kramer v. City of Lake Oswego
“cannot be read in isolation ... but must be read in its proper context, as part of the instrument as a whole”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 - Winsum Ltd. v. 17-33 Winter St., LLC.

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.