Pinney v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Quinn v. Valiquette (1908), Porter v. Bank of Rutland (1847)
2 district · 22 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 Steere v. Steere · Wright v. Bates · Movan v. Hays
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule, both at law and in equity, that the open and exclusive possession of land is notice to a purchaser of the possessor's title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tomasi v. Kelley
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.