Hewes v. Bruno’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2014
2 district · 14 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 French v. Pearce · Hoban v. Bucklin · Page v. Downs · Cataldo v. Grappone · Lang v. Isabelle
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unnecessary to inquire into the motives of a possessor. The acts of his entry onto and possession of the land should, regardless of the basis of the occupancy, alert the true owner of his cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zivic v. Place
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.