May v. Sorrell’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Blaylock v. Hackel (1927), Tilley v. King (1940)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 Flannery & Co. v. Hightower · Pitts v. McWhorter · Clayton v. Stetson · Howell v. Ellsberry · Ansley Co. v. O'Byrne
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cultivation of a turpentine farm upon a tract of land is such an occupancy as may be the basis of a prescriptive title to the land itself; and it is a question of fact depending upon the character of possession, the extent of the visible signs of occupancy and its continuance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When land is conveyed by metes and bounds, whether there be more or less than the quantity named in the deed, the purchaser obtains the whole of it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCook v. Council“so notorious as to attract the attention of every adverse claimant, and so exclusive as to prevent actual occupation by another.”
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.