Asher v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1971
3 federal appellate · 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 Whitley County Land Co. v. Powers' Heirs · Farnsworth v. Barret · Sackett v. Jeffries · Carter v. Elk Coal Co. · Big Sandy Co. v. Ramey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in order for such consequences (the ripening of a possessory title) to be visited upon the true owner it is everywhere recognized that the adverse holder must, in the language of some of the opinions, ‘keep.his flag flying,’ which is to say that his holding must be continuous and uninterrupted for the statutory period, and that an uninterrupted claim of title throughout that time must be made by the one so holding. In other words, the adverse possession must be such as to give a cause of' action for every moment of the statutory period; if it is broken it ceases to run and will not again accrue until a new adverse holding is begun, in which case the prior holding before the break may not be tacked on to the subsequent one to complete the period.””
1 later decision 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.