Devall v. Choppin’s Empirical Analysis
1840
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1983
17 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.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the possession has commenced in good faith, and if it is afterwards held in bad faith, that will not prevent prescription, even if the possessor’s title was fraudulent, and he knew another person had a better title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is sufficient if the possession has commenced in good faith; and if the possession should afterwards be held in bad faith, that shall not prevent the prescription."”
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.