Roman v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. · Locke v. Ponte · Marsh, Day & Calhoun v. Solomon · Chrysler Corp. v. Maiocco
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“American rule' is that attorney's fees and ordinary expenses and burdens of litigation are not allowed to the successful litigant absent a contractual or statutory exception.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plaintiffs had the burden of proving a prescriptive right to use the defendants' property. . . . To sustain their burden, the plaintiffs were required to establish that their use of the defendants' property was open, visible, continuous and uninterrupted for fifteen years and made under a claim of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Use under a claim of right simply means without recognition of the rights of the owner of the servient tenement.”
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.