McNeely v. Jacks’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2019
9 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 511 So. 2d 112 - Dethlefs v. Beau Maison Development Corp. · Johnson v. Black · Powell v. Hopkins · Anderson v. Richards · 482 So. 2d 1172 - Smith v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an abandonment would be found in circumstances where "the public's exclusion from a public road is so complete and continuous that, were adverse possession being claimed against a record title holder the claim would be honored...." Thus, according to the case authority, the evidence must show that the disuse of the road has been complete and that it has continued uninterrupted by any occasion of public use for a continuous period of at least ten years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a public road runs through the property of one and deadends on the property of another, and for ten years the latter (and persons acting on his behalf and with his permission) are the only ones to use the road, no abandonment occurs.... [T]he owner of the land on whose property the road deadends is as much as any other a member of the general public, as able in law to interrupt the period of prescription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]ere non-user [sic] by a part or all the general public, or use by some members of the general public of a public road as a 'lovers' lane, whiskey cache or as a place for dumping garbage, will not constitute such an abandonment as to deprive it of its public character ....”
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.