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← 721 SO2D 1259 - Dupont v. Whiteside

Dupont v. Whiteside’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2014

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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 Cross v. State · 528 So. 2d 1179 - In RE RULE 3.160 (A), FLA. R. OF CR. PROC. · 489 So. 2d 22 - Christopher v. State · 629 So. 2d 127 - Dance v. Tatum · 404 So. 2d 410 - Roy v. Euro-Holland Vastgoed, BV

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A license . . . is generally revocable at the pleasure of the grantor . . . .”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “The term `necessity' as used in the common law doctrine implying ways of necessity, means that no other reasonable mode of accessing the property exists without implying the easement, and the fact that one means of access is more convenient than another does not make the more convenient means a `necessity.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “An implied easement of a way of necessity should not be granted where there is other reasonable access to the property that will enable the owner to achieve a beneficial use and enjoyment of the property.”
    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.