Russo v. Terek’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2007
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 Appliances, Inc. v. Yost · Damora v. Christ-Janer · Kelly v. Ivler · American Brass Co. v. Serra · Reynolds v. Soffer
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.
“open hostile, visible, notorious, adverse, uninterrupted and [of a continuous nature, the adverse possessor] acting under a claim of right, . . . and effectively [prohibiting the use of the right of way] for the prescription period (15 years) before institution of suit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An express reservation of easement may be lost by prescription. "[I]f the servient owner (the defendant here) should by adverse acts lasting through the prescriptive period obstruct the dominant owner's (the plaintiff's here) enjoyment, intending to deprive him of the easement, he may by prescription acquire the right to use his own land free from 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.