Stevens v. MacRae’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2023
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 Ballard v. Titus · Herrin v. Sieben · Gardner v. Webster · Langdon v. Templeton · McKenney v. McKenney
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere lapse of time and nonuser for railway tracks for the length of time shown by the record, prior to the date of plaintiff's deed, did not in themselves operate in law as an abandonment of the possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t further appeared that this railroad right of way, here called 'D. & H. way,' had not been used for railway tracks for at least 20 years at the time of the last hearing in this case, in October, 1919.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a right of way to the above-described premises across other land of said grantors from the public highway passing the dwelling house of the grantors.”
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.