Santmeyer v. Clemmancs’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1984
14 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 Lazarus v. Phelps · Clarkson v. Hatton · Skansi v. Novak · Peoples Savings Bank v. Frank Bufford · Balch v. Smith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Wilkeson v. Miller, 63 Wash. 680 , 116 Pac. 268 , quoting with approval to the same effect from Balch v. Smith, 4 Wash. 497 , 30 Pac. 648 , it was held that a complaint to recover possession of real property setting forth the nature of the plaintiffs’ title was sufficient, without alleging that the plaintiffs were seized and possessed of the premises within the statutory period for commencing the action. The plaintiff had a right to maintain the action, even though Mr. Santmeyer was not in the actual possession of the property at any time during the ten years next preceding the commencement thereof.””
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.