Perry v. String Fellow’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1963
3 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 Lazarus v. Phelps · Hill v. Brown · Strait Bros. v. Chaney · East Side Realty Co. v. Fowler · 39 Tex. Civ. App. 188 - Clifton & Wadkins v. Royse Cotton Oil 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contest being for possession of land belonging to neither of the contestants, it must be determined by the rule that prior possession gives the better right. The idea is a mistaken one that this rule is a rule of evidence and nothing more. It is a rule of public policy as well. It enforces resort to courts, and not to self-help, to settle disputes involving the right of possession, and thereby prevents breaches of the peace. Under this rule, it would seem that, so late as 1929, Hudgins, as against all the world except the true owners of the 5-acre tracts located in the Hudgins pasture, had the superior right of possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffith v. Mauritz
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.