Snow v. Bray’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1982
17 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 Wilson v. Holt · Dodge v. Irvington Land Co. · Rucker v. Jackson · Woods v. Montevallo Coal & Transportation Co. · Farley v. Smith
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Continuity is as essential as any other element of adverse possession. Indeed, ‘the continuity of the adverse possession is the very essence of the doctrine and policy of the statutes of limitation,’ for ‘whenever a party quits the possession the seisin of the true owner is restored, and a subsequent wrongful entry constitutes a new disseisin.’ Henry v. Brown, 143 Ala. 446 , 39 South. 325 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lucas v. Kirk
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.