Barnes v. . Light’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 1970 · most notably Belotti v. . Bickhardt (1920), Baker v. . Oakwood (1890)
50 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 La Frombois v. Jackson ex dem. Smith · Cahill v. . Palmer
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The actual possession and improvement of the premises as owners are accustomed to possess and improve their estate, without any payment of rent or recognition of title in another . . . , will, in the absence of all other evidence, be sufficient to raise a presumption of his entry and holding as absolute owner, and, unless rebutted by other evidence, will establish the fact of a claim of title.””
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.