Oliver v. Hook’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Condry v. Laurie (1945), 100 Md. App. 144 - Beck v. Mangels (1994)
49 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If apt and appropriate terms had been used in the deed, such as ‘with the ways now used,’ or ‘used with the land hereby conveyed,’ they would have passed the right to such ways as had been actually used in connection with the part granted; not, however, as existing easements, but those terms would have operated to create new easements, for the benefit of the estate granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hancock v. Henderson““And a right of way of necessity can only be raised out of the land granted or reserved by the grantor, and never out of the land of a stranger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.