Amoco Production Co. v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2012
2 district · 9 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 Humble Pipe Line Co. v. Waggonner · Fields v. South Carolina · Wagner v. Fairlamb · Kennedy v. Bond · Martinez v. Martinez
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A way of necessity can only arise where an owner of property severs a portion of his property and the portion retained or sold is cut off from access to a public route by the land from which it was severed.” The fundamental requirement of common ownership[ ] is lacking in the instant case. There is no proof that Seller ever owned the [dominant] tract in addition to the [servient] lots he owned in the [subdivision, or that he conveyed or retained portions thereof in a manner which would landlock the [dominant] tract.”
2 later decisions 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.