Evanich v. Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Franklin v. Massillon Homes II, L.L.C. (2009), Diefenthaler v. Schuffenecker (2010)
35 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 Grace v. Koch · French v. Pearce · 111 Ohio St. 341 - Pennsylvania Rd. Co. v. Donovan · State ex rel. A.A.A. v. City of Columbus · Reed v. Evans
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o succeed in acquiring title by adverse possession, the claimant must show exclusive possession that is open, notorious, continuous, and adverse for 21 years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]ntent is objective rather than subjective in determining whether the adversity element of adverse possession has been established[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. George
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.