Talley v. Drumheller’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2015
11 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 Wiggins Ferry Co. v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. · Wiggins Ferry Co v. Ohio M Ry Co · Daviel Jackson v. John Twentyman · Toledo, Ann Arbor & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Dunlap · Steinman v. Clinchfield Coal Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the owner thereof voluntarily relinquishes possession thereof with the intention of terminating his ownership and with no intention of vesting title in another. When such property has been so abandoned, the first person who takes possession thereof... acquires title thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.