Clithero v. Fenner’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2024
16 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 Illinois Steel Co. v. Bilot · Illinois Steel Co. v. Budzisz · Meyer v. Hope · Hooker v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Lampman v. Van Alstyne
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.
“Negotiations to purchase the strip from [the record owner], to settle the dispute, do not in themselves absolutely establish a relinquishment of the claim of the rights acquired by adverse possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahill v. Morrow
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.