Brown v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 1965 · most notably Flinn v. Blakeman (1934), Kentucky Union Company v. Hevner (1924)
25 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 Morgan v. Renfro
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to maintain a plea of champerty, possession by actual inclosure is not required. All that. is necessary is actual adverse possession, manifested by some act or fact sufficient to indicate to others, that the person claiming to have been possessed had, in fact, the possession.” Moss v. Scott, 2 Dana, 271 ; Hellard v. Hubbard, 160 Ky. 307 , 169 S. W. 727 , Ann. Cas. 1916A, 605.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moren v. Houston
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.