Schulz v. Syvertsen’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Ventres v. Goodspeed Airport, LLC (2005), Il Giardino, LLC v. Belle Haven Land Co. (2000)
66 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 Town of Brookfield v. Candlewood Shores Estates, Inc. · Wadsworth Realty Co. v. Sundberg · Wildwood Associates, Ltd. v. Esposito · Robinson v. Myers · Reynolds v. Soffer
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Clear and positive proof' embodies the same substantive standard as clear and convincing proof.' Wildwood Associates. Ltd. v. Esposito, 211 Conn. 36 , 42 , 557 A.2d 1241 (1989).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to establish adverse possession, the claimant must oust an owner of possession and keep such owner out uninterruptedly for fifteen years by an open, visible and exclusive possession under a claim of right with intent to use the property as his own and without the consent of the owner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To acquire a right-of-way by prescription, the party claiming the right must prove a use which is open, visible, continuous and uninterrupted for fifteen years and made under a claim of right.”
2 later decisions 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.