Magee v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Clark v. Amoco Production Co. (1986), Magee v. Young (1946)
2 federal appellate · 53 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.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since it is not consistent with human experience for one really owning property of value to assert no claim thereto, but to acquiesce for a long period of time in an unfounded, hostile claim, the rule is sound which permite the inference that an apparent owner has parted with his title____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Actual possession of the land by Stephen Albert or by his assigns was not essential to the establishment by circumstantial evidence of the alleged missing link or links in the title . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howland v. Hough““First, of a long-asserted and open claim, adverse to that of the apparent owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.