Smith v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Brown v. United States · Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett · Great American Reserve Insurance Co. v. San Antonio Plumbing Supply Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a suit for the possession of real- property between a person claiming under record title to the property and one claiming by adverse possession, if the prevailing party recovers possession of the property from a person unlawfully in actual possession, the court may award costs and reasonable attorney’s fees to the prevailing party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.