Green v. Marlin’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 1985 · most notably Lay v. Phillips (1964), O'Bar v. Southern Life Health Ins. Co. (1936)
51 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 McCreary v. Jackson Lumber Co. · Chastang v. Chastang · Shepherd v. Scott's Chapel · Henderson v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Ry. Co. · Southern Railway Co. v. Hayes
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be such a continuous and persistent cutting of timber or wood from the tract, as to be evidence of a claim of ownership, and an advertisement to the world that the party is occupying the entire tract”
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.