Morrell v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2021
1 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on New York Central Railroad v. Yarian · Traders, Inc. v. Bartholomew · LeMay v. Anderson · Attaway v. Davis · 52 Md. App. 108 - Stair v. Miller
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An easement created by necessity can include not only the right of entry and egress, but also the right to make use of the easement for installation of utilities, essential for most uses to which property may reasonably be put in these times.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n the absence of any evidence that underground utilities would present an undue burden to the Rices' land [the servient estate], the court did not err in concluding that the right to install such utilities was included in the easement.”
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.