Ellen v. Ellen’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1989
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Charles Madsden v. Phœnix Fire Insurance · Abrahams v. Kelly & Barrett · Cribb v. Rogers
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n adverse possessor is a trespasser from the beginning to the end. His possession begins in trespass, and so continues until it ripens into a right at the end of the statutory period of ten years. During this time he has nothing that he can convey; nor can his possession be tacked with that of his grantee so as to defeat the title of the true owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Title to land growing out of long-continued possession — long enough to presume a grant, deed or other muniment of title — attaches at the beginning of the possession, in a presumption of law, that a deed was executed at that time which has since been lost.””
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.