Crane v. Crane’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2020
21 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 Sandy Island Corp. v. Ragsdale · Venus Lodge No. 62 v. Acme Benevolent Ass'n · Henson v. Bridges · Bradley v. O'Hare · Jensen v. Brown
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An easement in gross is a mere personal interest in the real estate of another, and is not assignable or inheritable. It dies with the person, and it is so exclusively personal that the owner by right cannot take another person in company with him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since the claimed easement is not appurtenant to any particular dominant estate (none of the plaintiffs owns land adjoining defendants), it is an easement in gross.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a use need not be `regular' or `constant' in order to be `continuous.' All that is necessary is that the use be as often as required by the nature of the use and the needs of the claimant.”
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.