Blackburn v. Coffee’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1967
15 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 Shirey v. Whitlow · O'Neal v. Ross · Hudson v. Stillwell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This offer to purchase from Blackburn by Coffee would be, to a certain extent, a recognition- of Blackburn’s claim, and would have a tendency to show that Coffee’s possession was not adverse, if it had occurred before the statutory period had run and the title by adverse possession had been acquired. But if at the time it was made Coffee’s grantors had already been in possession of the land for over seven years, claiming to hold it adversely, and had thereby become vested with the title by limitation, a mere recognition of Blackburn’s title could not revest the title in him when the title had already been acquired by another by adverse possession. This court has expressly held that recog'nition of another’s title after the full statutory period has elapsed will not have that effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoskins v. Talley
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.