Munro v. Meech’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1934
8 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 Fuller v. Hasbrouck · Moran v. Lezotte · Smith v. Wiggin · Franks v. Fecheimer · Ryan v. Wilson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that the right of the public or of individuals to the use of the land of others, for a precise and definite purpose, not inconsistent with a general right of property in the owner of the soil, is, in contemplation of law, an easement or franchise, and not a right of property in the soil, even though it deprive the owner for the time being of all useful or beneficial interest in the land.””
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.