Dillon v. Norfleet’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2019
11 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 Teson v. Vasquez · Allen v. Smith · Gieselmann v. Stegeman · State Ex Rel. County of Shannon v. Chilton · Wills v. Meador
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]everal witnesses estimated the width of the alley to be 12 feet[; o]ne of the plaintiffs by actual measure had found the length of the alleyway ... to be 301.6 feet, although only the south 200 feet of the alleyway was on defendants' property[; t]he south boundary of the alleyway was testified to be 33rd Street[; and t]he alleyway was described in the testimony as running along the back of plaintiffs' properties, and as being located on defendants' land along the entire 200-foot north-south length thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiffs' evidence was sufficient to establish the boundaries of the alleyway [claimed by prescriptive easement]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]vidence [that] will enable the easement to be located.”
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.