Dew v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1966 · most notably Holden v. First National Bank & Trust Co. (1940), Thompson v. Odom (1966)
34 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 Murphree v. Hanson · Riggs v. Fuller · Joyce v. Dyer · Fielder v. Childs · Miller v. Vizzard Investment Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The grantor was one of the heirs to whom the lands had descended. A sale and conveyance by him of the entire fee to a stranger, who takes possession claiming the exclusive title, operates a disseisin of the other heirs, and converts the possession of the stranger into an adverse possession, which, if continued the length of time prescribed by the statute of limitations, will bar the entry of the other heirs.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. Blackmon
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.