Phillippi v. Leet’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2021
16 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 Scorpion Silver Mining Co. v. Marsano · Reed v. Calderwood · Calderwood v. Brooks · Gage v. Williams
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.
““Furthermore, her (plaintiff’s) possession was complete without these physical acts to evidence it. The law presumes the true owner to be in possession until adverse possession is shown to begin. The acts of Leet (defendant) in placing the monuments as above described did not constitute a disseizin of plaintiff’s grantor, who at the time, as owner in fee simple, was in possession; and the plaintiff, by his conveyance to- her, was placed in his status, and-at the time of the commencement of the action was in possession of the land and entitled in that regard to maintain the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambert v. Murray
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.