Joy v. Stump’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1947 · most notably Gardner v. Wright (1907), Anderson v. Richards (1921)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 20 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 Arrington v. Liscom · Wells v. Jackson Iron Manufacturing Co. · Chapman v. Dougherty · Parker v. Metzger · Jackson ex dem. Gee v. Oltz
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.
““It is equally well settled that when a person relies upon naked possession as the foundation for an adverse claim there must be an actual occupancy, and the possession cannot be extended by construction beyond the limits of the actual occupation, and such possession must not only be actual, but also visible, eontiimons, notorious, distinct, and hostile, and ot such a character ns to indicate exclusive ownership in the occupant.””
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.