Trigg v. Allemand’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 171 W. Va. 97 - Wells v. Smith (1982), Aken v. Plains Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, Inc. (2002)
32 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 · Kripp v. Curtis · Samedan Oil Corp. v. Neeld · Martinez v. Mundy · Pendergrass v. Lovelace
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.
““[F]requency of use or number of users is unimportant, it being enough if use of the road in question was free and common to all who had occasion to use it as a public highway.” Discher v. Klapp, 124 Ind.App. 568 , 117 N.E.2d 758 , 757 (1954). Once a road is found to be open to the public and free and common to all citizens, they [sic] should be open for all uses reasonably foreseeable. Westlake v. Duncan, Dieckman & Duncan Mining Co., 228 Ark. 336 , 307 S.W.2d 220 (1957).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luevano v. Maestas“What is exemplified by the language of the courts is the protection afforded adjoining land owners in the establishment of a public easement by prescription when one landowner sits idly by for ten or more years and grants persons free use of a roadway over his land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Luevano v. Maestas
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.