Leake v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Grappo v. Blanks (1991), Wickouski v. Swift (1962)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 Williams v. Green · Stonestreet v. Doyle · Powell v. Magee · Virginia Coal & Iron Co. v. Hylton · Cornett v. Rhudy
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he character of the acts necessary to vest one with a title by adverse possession [or a prescriptive right] varies with the nature of the property involved, the conditions surrounding it, and the use to which the property may be adapted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the plaintiff `must show actual, hostile, exclusive and continuous possession for the period of the statutory bar' by `acts of such notoriety that the true owner has actual knowledge, or may be presumed to know, of the adverse claim.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“indicate a change of condition, showing a notorious claim of title”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.