Goltermann v. Schiermeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Landers v. Thompson (1947), Allen v. Wiseman (1949)
31 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 Cragin v. Powell · Jacobs v. Moseley · Crispen v. Hannavan · Schad v. Sharp · Draper v. Shoot
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual occupancy” are themselves indefinite in their meaning, for although they are usually applied to a case of residence on the land, or to an occupation by fences or buildings, they are not necessarily restricted to such marks of occupation,' but may be applied to other acts of ownership which are known to the true owner.’ [See also Mississippi Co. v. Vowels, 101 Mo. 225 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cashion v. Meredith
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.