Betts v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 1975 · most notably Hodge v. Joy (1921), 21 Cal. 2d 91 - Noble v. Beach (1942)
65 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 Kidd v. Borum · Goodman v. Winter · McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Jordan · O'Neal v. Seixas
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The partition or di.vision simply designates the portion or share of the estate, real and personal, each devisee or legatee is entitled to hold in severalty under the will. The possession, with claim of exclusive title to the premises in controversy — exclusive, so far as the other devisees are concerned — by Mrs. Holcombe and those claiming under her for more than 20 years was sufficient evidence of a partition, or division, and of her title in severalty. * * * The presumption that there had been a division or partition, and the premises had been assigned to her, would arise, from the length of possession.” McArthur v. Carrie, 32 Ala. 75 , 70 Am. Dec. 529 ; Harrison v. Heflin, 54 Ala. 552 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Duvall
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.