Garmond v. Kinney’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2003 · most notably State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Price Ex Rel. Moya (1984), DeArmond v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. (2003)
27 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 Hester v. Sawyers · Martinez v. Mundy · Adams v. Tatsch · Sanchez v. Dale Bellamah Homes of New Mexico, Inc. · Vigil v. Baltzley
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for the court to grant an easement in favor of the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs must show by clear and convincing evidence that they used the roadway in question openly, uninterruptedly, peaceably, notoriously, adversely and under a claim of right for a period of ten years and that they did so with the knowledge of the owner. [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilman v. McCrary
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.