Mueller v. Hoblyn’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Smith v. Muellner (2007), Edgcomb v. Lower Valley Power & Light, Inc. (1996)
31 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Hopper v. All Pet Animal Clinic, Inc. · Cushman Virginia Corporation v. Barnes · 33 Colo. App. 245 - Westland Nursing Home, Inc. v. Benson · Day v. Buckeye Water Conservation & Drainage District
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An easement is defined as 'an interest in land which entitles the easement holder to a limited use or enjoyment over another person's property.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“inconsistent with the use made and rights held by the easement holder, not merely possession which is inconsistent with another's claim of title.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Wlhere an easement has been created but no occasion has arisen for its use, the owner of the servient tenement may fence his land and such use will not be deemed adverse to the existence of the easement until such time as (1) the need for the right of way arises, (2) a demand is made by the owner of the dominant tenement that the easement be opened and (8) the owner of the servient tenement refuses to do so.”
2 later decisions 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.