Tyler v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1981
21 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 Thibodeaux v. Thibodeaux · Rhodes v. Cooper · State v. Nelson · Lewis v. Hare · Rankin v. Bell
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There [in Smith v. Gibbon] the prescription of 10 years acquirendi causa was pleaded against a plaintiff who had been of age only 3 years and had derived title by inheritance from her mother, during whose lifetime the defendant had held adverse possession more than 7 years. It was held that, as the prescription that was running against the plaintiff’s mother was only suspended, not interrupted, by the plaintiff’s minority, it resumed its original course when the plaintiff attained the age of majority and had then only three years to run. The doctrine of the decision is that prescription must begin its term anew if it has been interrupted [as by an abandonment of possession of the property], but not if it has been merely suspended, after having commenced its term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tillery v. Fuller
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.