Emmer v. Rector’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Sessum v. Hemperley (1957), Buckley v. Catlett (1943)
42 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 Opdenwyer v. Brown · Sibley v. Pierson · Harang v. Golden Ranch Land & Drainage Co. · 16 Ala. App. 548 - Hall v. Ingram Land Co. · State v. American Ry. Express 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 3475 of the Civil Code provides that: `Immovables are prescribed for by 30 years without any title on the part of the possessor, or whether he be in good faith or not.' See to the same effect article 3499 of the Civil Code.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“impliedly, if not expressly, approved the converse of the proposition; namely, that, where there was a privity of contract between the possessor and his vendor, the possession of the latter could be tacked on to the possession of the former to make out the statutory period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“How favorable soever prescription may be, it shall be restricted within just limits. Thus, in the prescription of thirty years, which is acquired without title, it extends only to that which has been actually possessed by the person pleading it.”
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.