Richards v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 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 Goslen v. Waddell Inv. Co. · Dardenne v. Daniels · Aldridge v. Caskey · Mitchell v. Graham
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action for the recovery of real property not hereinbefore provided for, within fifteen (15) years.” 60 O.S.1961 § 333, provides: “Occupancy for the period prescribed by civil procedure, or any law of this State as sufficient to bar an action for the recovery of the property, confers a title thereto, denominated a title by prescription, which is sufficient against all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Wells
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.