16 E.H. Smith 371 - Meigs v. . Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 1977 · most notably Wichelman v. Messner (1957), Saranac Land Timber Company v. James a Roberts (1900)
88 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMeigs v. Roberts
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Anderson · Turner v. People of State of New York · People v. . Turner · Cromwell v. . MacLean · Ensign v. . Barse
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is questionable whether as to an owner in actual possession of land, the record of a hostile conveyance in the clerk’s office is sufficient to set a ■statute of limitations running against him so as to destroy his title.””
2 later decisions 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.