Combs v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1957
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Kenyon Realty Co. v. National Deposit Bank · Cooper v. Williamson · Sackett v. Jeffries · LeMoyne v. Hays · Hall v. Hall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The first question to be determined, as we have indicated, is whether this is a suit to quiet title, in which event the appellees must recover 'on the. strength of their title; or whether it is merely a suit to enjoin a trespass, in which case it can be maintained by proof of their possession when the trespass was committed and the suit filed. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Deaton
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.