Berry v. . McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1980
1 district · 7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The land in controversy appears to be swamp land, uninclosed, and with no habitation upon it. The evidence Indicates that the plaintiff and his lather for more than BO years exercised acts of dominion over the land, and made from it the only profits and use of which it is susceptible. From the evidence of the witnesses the jury may well infer that these acts were those of ownership and not those of an occasional trespasser, and that they were repeated and continuous for a considerable period of time. The possession was as decided and notorious as the nature of the land would permit.””
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.