Handlan v. McManus’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1911
14 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 Cole v. Parker
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt that possession, to be of any avail as a defense under the statute of limitations, nrast lie adverse, anil not subordinate to the true title. The possession cannot lie adverse so long as It is held under a lease or license. * * * ” Bond v. O’Gara, 177 Mass. 139 , 58 N. E. 275 , 83 Am. St. Rep. 265 ; Anderson v. McCormick, 18 Or. 301 , 22 Pac. 1062 ; Deputron v. Young, 134 U. S. 241 , 10 Sup. Ct. 539 , 33 L. Ed. 923 .”
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.