Gregory v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Myers v. Yingling (2008), 41 Ark. App. 52 - Summers v. Dietsch (1993)
50 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 Goodwin v. Garibaldi · Deidrich v. Simmons · Randleman v. Taylor · Robinson v. Gaylord · Peebles v. McDonald
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is true that in this case the original rail fence line was established without a prior dispute as to boundary • but the recognition of that line for the many intervening' years (34 in this case) shows a quietude and acquiescence for so many years that the law will presume an. agreement concerning the boundary. ’ ’ ’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Bittle · Clay v. Dodd
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.