Ernst v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2004
2 district · 8 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 Peck v. Conway · Dennis v. Wilson · Cadwalader v. Bailey · Winston v. Johnson · Wagner v. Hanna
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.
“The existence of an easement [appurtenant] involves the idea of two distinct tenements: a dominant estate, to which the right is accessorial; and a servient estate, upon which it is a burden or charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is a privilege which the owner of one tenement has the right to enjoy, in respect to that tenement, in or over the tenement of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“land contiguous to the right of way and dependent upon it as a means of ingress and egress to and from the back portion of her premises.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pokorny v. Salas
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.