Pitzman v. Boyce’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Hester v. Sawyers (1937), Anson v. Tietze (1945)
77 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Wiseman v. . Lucksinger · Baker v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. · Fuhr v. Dean · State v. Wells · State v. Walters
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If permissive in its inception, then such permissive character being stamped on the use at the outset, will continue of the same nature, and no adverse user can arise until a distinct and positive assertion of a right hostile to the owner, and brought home to him, can transform a subordinate and friendly holding into one of an opposite nature, and exclusive and independent in its character.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from its very nature, a license is revocable.”
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.