Long v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1988
13 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 Bakeman v. . Talbot · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Judkins · Hawes 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The terms of the grant, considered in reference to the locality and situation of the premises, do not operate to pass a right to the unobstructed use of the entire lot described — such as a right of way over a street or a strip of land appropriated to the purposes of a street — but to the convenient use of so much as may be necessary to the purposes intended by the grant. . . . ". . . From the circumstances and the situation of the premises, evidently the intention was to provide a mode of ingress and egress for the purpose of receiving and delivering goods and other articles of use at the rear end of the store. The easement extends to the convenient use of the land for vehicles or conveyances, such as may be reasonably required. The complainant therefore is entitled to a way reasonably convenient for the employment of conveyances, such as are usually and generally employed in transporting goods to and from stores. But the owner of the soil is entitled to all the rights, benefits, and privileges of ownership, consistent with and subject to such easement. . . . ". . . As the City Court adjudged the rights of complainant in unison with these views, the case is reduced to a question of fact — whether the obstruction abridges or impedes the reasonable and convenient use of the right of way for the purposes intended, and for which it was granted?" (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The terms of the grant, considered in reference to the locality and situation of the premises, do not operate to pass a right to the unobstructed use of the entire lot described — such as a right of way over a street or a strip of land appropriated to the purposes of a street — but to the convenient use of so much as may be necessary to the purposes intended by the grant. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . As the City Court adjudged the rights of complainant in unison with these views, the case is reduced to a question of fact — whether the obstruction abridges or impedes the reasonable and convenient use of the right of way for the purposes intended, and for which it was granted?”
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.