Weisiger v. Harbour’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2023
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 Trueblood v. Pierce · Allen v. First National Bank · Martini v. Smith · Sprague v. Stead · Rivera v. Queree
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To satisfy the open and notorious element, the use must be sufficiently obvious to apprise the owner of the servient estate, in the exercise of reasonable diligence, that another is making use of the burdened land so that the owner may object. However, actual knowledge by the owner need not be proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clinger v. Hartshorn“Using an easement for more than eighteen years entitles the holder to the presumption that use was adverse.”
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.