Montgomery v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1984
16 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 Ringo v. Woodruff · Hart v. Sternberg · Stricker v. Britt · Hartzog v. Dean
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.
““. . . In order that adverse possesson may ripen into ownership, possession for seven years must be actual, open, notorious, hostile, exclusive, and it must be accompanied with an intent to hold against the true owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Minton v. McGowan
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.