BROADUS v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1990
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Worthley v. Burbanks · McCaughn v. Young · Ford v. Wilson · Leavenworth v. Claughton · Smith v. Myrick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true doctrine, and the one now generally recognized is 'That neither actual occupation, cultivation, or residence are necessary to constitute actual possession when the property is so situated as not to admit of any permanent useful improvement' . . . .; 47 "It is not necessary that the occupation should be such that a mere stranger passing the land would know that someone was asserting title to a dominion over it. It is not necessary that the land be cleared or fenced, or that any building be put upon it. 48 "The question is, Did the person claiming to hold adversely exercise towards the property the same character of control which he used towards property actually his, and which he would not have used over property which did not belong to him; 49 "Possession of land cannot be more than the exercise of dominion over it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The land could not be profitably cultivated, nor was it good pasture land, or suitable for occupancy as a residence much of it being swampy and low. It was by nature best adapted to the use to which Broadus put it, i.e., reforestation. It is evident, too, that any person of ordinary observation, going upon and inspecting the land as a prospective purchaser, would have noticed signs of ownership being exercised thereover. ( 210 Miss. at 893 , 50 So.2d at 720 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Did Broadus exercise over this property ' * * * public acts of ownership, such as he would exercise over property which he claimed in his own right and would not exercise over property which he did not claim'?”
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.