Wykoff v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2013
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Chesson v. . Jordan · 14 Utah 2d 36 - Metropolitan Investment Company v. Sine · McBride v. McBride · Nielson v. Sandberg · North Union Canal Company v. Newell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] right-of-way founded on a deed or grant is limited to the uses and extent fixed by the instrument.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is also established in this state that a deed should be construed so as to effectuate the intentions and desires of the parties, as manifested by the language made use of in the deed. Further, when the deed creates an easement the circumstances attending the transaction, the situation of the parties, and the object to be obtained are also to be considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“«inreasonably restrict or interfere with the proper use of .... [an] easement'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carrier v. Lindquist
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.