George v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1937
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 Newsom v. Pryor's Lessee · Makepeace v. Bancroft · Rockwell v. Adams
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the parties have agreed upon and marked a boundary line, and the possession is in accordance with it for such a length of time as may give title by disseisin, the line cannot be disturbed, although found to be erroneously established, unless there be clear proof that the possession was not adverse. 4 Shep. 23.”
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.