McClung v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
18 U.S. 116 · 1820
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Ballard v. Hunter (1907), Fletcher v. Fuller (1887)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Barr v. Gratz's heirs · Williams v. Peyton's Lessee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A silent possession accompanied by no act which can amount to an ouster or give notice to his co-tenant that Ms possession is adverse, ought not, we think, to be construed into an adverse possession.””
2 later decisions 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.