96 N.C. App. 72 - Johnson v. Stanley’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2012
24 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 Dickinson v. Pake · Bicycle Transit Authority, Inc. v. Bell · 100 Wash. 2d 853 - Chaplin v. Sanders · Potts v. Burnette · Pittman v. FIRST PROTECTION LIFE INS. COMPANY
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the use is adverse, hostile or under claim of right; (2) that the use has been open and notorious such that the true owner had notice of the claim; (3) that the use has been continuous and uninterrupted for a period of at least twenty years; and (4) that there is substantial identity of the easement claimed throughout the twenty-year period.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term adverse user or possession implies a user or possession that is not only under a claim of right, but that it is open and of such character that the true owner may have notice of the claim[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Notice of a claim of right may be given in a number of ways, including . . . by open and visible acts such as repairing or maintaining the way over another's 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.