Finn v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1978
16 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 Gildehaus v. Whiting · Anderson v. Burnham
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Adverse possession is to be taken strictly, and every presumption is in favor of a possession in subordination to the rightful owner. Title by adverse possession, therefore, must be established by clear and positive proof. It cannot be made out by inference.’ (1 R. C. L. 695.)” (Quoted approvingly in Finn v. Alexander, 102 Kan. 607, 610 , 171 Pac. 602 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwab v. Wyss““A possession, however open and long continued it may be, will not operate as a disseizin and commencement of a new title unless it imports a denial of the owner’s title and an appropriation of the land by the occupant to his own use. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aguilera v. Corkill
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.