Rees v. Drinning’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2011
13 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 Cheda v. Bodkin · Jersey Farm Co. v. Atlanta Realty Co. · 40 Cal. App. 364 - Nay v. Bernard · Quinlan v. Noble · Fischer v. Hendler
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The elements necessary to create an ‘easement by implied grant’ are a separation of the title, before separation takes place the use which gives rise to easements must be so long continued and so obvious as to show that it was intended to be permanent,.and easement must be reasonably necessary to the beneficial enjoyment of land granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leeson v. Brooks““Whether the driveway was laid out by the owner of both lots prior to severance of title, whether there was an obvious and permanent driveway at the time of severance, and whether or not its location had been changed were questions of fact for the determination of the trial court. . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leeson v. Brooks
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.