Vade v. Sickler’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Anderson v. Cold Spring Tungsten, Inc. (1969), Beneficial Life Ins. Co. v. Wakamatsu (1954)
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 City of Rock Springs v. Sturm · Trueblood v. Pierce · 235 Mo. App. 1289 - Edie v. Coleman · Bettack v. Conachen · Mielke v. Dodge
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.
“"The fact that one encroaches on his neighbor's property * * * thinking the property is his * * * is not controlling on the question as to whether the possession is adverse. If it were, the protection of the statute would be limited to those who deliberately set out to steal neighbor's property * * *". [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Haney v. Olson
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.