Bower v. Earl’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1956
13 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 Bloomer v. Henderson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acquiescence which will prevent the running of the statute must be that of the possessor in the owner’s' claim, and not that of the owner in a possession not acknowledged to be held under him. Acquiescence,! which is merely inaction, is the very thing which the statute contemplates as creating the limitation which! cuts off. the right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawson v. Bishop““We agree with Mr. Greenleaf that such statements and claims to explain possession are admissible for what they are worth, whether in disparagement of title or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doctor v. Turner
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.