Cox v. Godec’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2014
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 Evans v. Welch · Cameron v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · 28 Cal. App. 361 - Mattes v. Hall · Peyton v. Waters · City of Grand Rapids v. Pere Marquette Railway Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the original entry on land ... was by permission or license from the true owner ... possession will, in the absence of an explicit disclaimer of subservience, be presumed to continue as it began; and there is no presumption arising from mere possession, however long it may continue, that.the holding is adverse."”
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.