Benne v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Roche v. Town of Fairfield (1982), Tillman v. Hutcherson (1941)
5 federal appellate · 28 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 Campbell v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · Turner v. Baker · Draper v. Shoot · Wilkerson v. Eilers · Douthitt v. Stinson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a claim to land is based on adverse possession for the statutory period without color of title, there is no constructive possession to be considered; actual possession only will avail the claimant. Whether or not certain conditions constitute actual possession is a question of law; whether or not those conditions exist is a question of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Seigle v. Thomas
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.