Sclafani v. Sclafani’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1977
5 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 Burgas v. Stoutz · Ogborn v. Lower Terrebonne Refining & Mfg. Co. · Wooten v. Jones · Clements v. Billiot · Carlon v. Marquart
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * discontinuous servitudes, whether apparent or not, can be established only by a title.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Continuous servitudes are those whose use is or may be continual without the act of man. "Such are aqueducts, drain, view and the like. "Discontinuous servitudes are such as need the act of man to be exercised. "Such are the rights of passage, of drawing water, pasture and the like." (emphasis added)”
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.