Peck v. MacKowsky’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably American Brass Co. v. Serra (1926), Sachs v. Toquet (1936)
25 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 Blanchard v. Maxson · Sweeney v. Landers, Frary & Clark · Rowell v. Doggett · Abbott v. Butler · Watts v. C. I. Johnson & Bowman Real Estate Corp.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“with which the reservation concludes, were employed to designate the location of the way, and not to define or restrict the use to which the way might be put. The grant thus becomes one defined in general terms, and without express limitation as to the character of the user. Such a grant is to be construed as broad enough to include any reasonable use to which the land might be devoted. Abbott v. Butler , 59 N. H. 317 , 318 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the construction of a deed or grant, the language is to be construed in connection with, and in reference to, the nature and condition of the subject matter of the grant at the time the instrument is executed, and the obvious purpose the parties had in view.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A right of way granted or reserved in general terms may be used for any purpose reasonably necessary for the party entitled to use it. . . . The grant being general in terms, it must be construed to include any reasonable use to which the land may be devoted.”
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.