69 N.C. App. 739 - Harris v. Greco’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
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 Oliver v. Ernul · 6 N.C. App. 497 - Dorman v. Wayah Valley Ranch, Inc. · 40 N.C. App. 247 - Adams v. Severt · Oliver v. Ernul
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he owner of the servient estate has the right to select the location of a way of necessity. This location must be reasonable with respect to the rights and convenience of the party entitled to the easement.... [Defendant ... testified that the route selected by plaintiffs was not feasible and that it would involve a great expense to defendant____ Since plaintiffs alternate route was not feasible to defendant and since there was evidence that the gravel road was the only way to reach defendant’s land by vehicle from the public road, the judgment ... is affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n easement by necessity will be implied upon proof of two elements: (1) the claimed dominant parcel and the claimed servient parcel were held in common ownership which was ended by a transfer of part of the land; and (2) as a result of the land transfer, it became "necessary" for the claimant to have 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.