Bodman v. Bodman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Burns Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. Boehm (1976), 300 Pa. Super. 234 - Minteer v. Wolfe (1982)
53 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 Concord Township Appeal · Ridley Township v. Pronesti · Prynn Estate · Donahue v. Punxsutawney Borough · 259 Cal. App. 2d 470 - Hill v. Allan
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 479. Extent of Easement Appurtenant as Affected by Evolution of the Dominant Tenement. In ascertaining whether a particular use is permissible under an easement appurtenant created by prescription there must be considered, in addition to the factors enumerated in § 478, the needs which result from a normal evolution in the use of the dominant tenement and the extent to which the satisfaction of those needs increases the burden on the servient tenement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“relative burden to the servient tenement caused by the easement before and after”
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.