State v. Portmann’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2013
2 federal appellate · 20 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 Ferguson v. Standley · City of Butte v. Mikosowitz · State Ex Rel. Game, Forestation & Parks Commission v. Hull · Groshean v. Dillmont Realty Co. · Descheemaeker v. Anderson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We recognize that there has been disagreement over the rules just stated. However, we find that the better reasoned cases are those which give the fullest recognition to the traditional requirements of adverse possession. For an annotation and a collection of cases on this question see 76 A.L.R.2d 535 .” 423 P.2d at 58 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keidel v. Rask“the rights acquired by adverse user can never exeeed the greatest use made of the land for the full prescriptive period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fennell v. Wilson
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.