Little v. Barbe’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1973 · most notably Fried v. Bradley (1951), Long v. Chailan (1940)
30 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 Farley v. Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. · Tillery v. Fuller · Leader Realty Co. v. Taylor · Kelly v. Kelly · Tyson v. Spearman
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ownership of a tract of land not fenced or enclosed in any way cannot be acquired by the prescription of thirty years by the exercising of merely temporary and occasional acts of possession of only a part of the land, as, for example, by the occasional felling and removing of timber from the land. And the reason for that is that the prescription of thirty years cannot prevail beyond the area of land actually possessed or occupied by the party pleading the prescription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the title be valid in point of form”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fried v. Bradley
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.