Hume v. Inglis’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1967
24 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 McCray v. McCray · Illinois Central Railroad v. Miller · Planters' Package Co. v. Parsons · Mays Food Products, Inc. v. Gloster Lumber Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A bill to confirm title can be maintained as such only when there is no adverse occupancy of the land. Section 549, Code of 1906 (section 321, Hemingway's 1927 Code). When the land is adversely occupied, as is the case here, the most that such a bill can be but it may be that much is one to cancel clouds, under which latter bill only named defendants can be made parties. It is not allowable under a bill to cancel clouds and, when there is adverse occupancy, to make unknown parties defendants, as may be done in a general bill to confirm. There was, therefore, no jurisdiction in this case of unknown defendants, and that portion of the decree attempting to adjudicate the title as against unknown parties is void, and must be reversed finally and vacated. * * *”
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.