Self v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1932
9 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 Knowles v. Ogletree
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Indeed, section 4283 [referring to Code 1907] requires, as a condition precedent to removal, that the defendant shall state in a sworn petition that he entered upon the land, not only peaceably, but under claim of title thereto, and not under any claim of any agreement, contract, or understanding with the plaintiff, or those under whom the plaintiff claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Lockhart
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.