Russell v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1989
10 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 127 Cal. App. 80 - Estate of McCarthy · Stolfa v. Gaines · Flesher v. Callahan · Builders' Supply Co. v. Phillips · Farmers Nat. Bank of Oklahoma City v. Gillis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The party relying on a title by adverse possession has the burden of proving all the facts necessary to establish such a title. Adverse possession is to be taken strictly, and every presumption is in favor of a possession is subordination to the rightful owner. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewster v. Herron
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.