Smith v. Kappler’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably Woolfolk v. Davis (1955), McGuire v. Wallis (1960)
43 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 Dobson v. Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission · Dunavant v. Fields · Higginbotham v. Harper · Hayden v. Hill · Zackery v. Warmack
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... In order for possession of a tenant in common to be adverse to that of his cotenants, knowledge of the adverse claim must be brought home to them directly or by such notorious acts of unequivocal character that notice may be presumed. Griffin v. Solomon, 235 Ark. 909 , 362 S.W. 2d 707 . Stronger evidence is required when a family relationship exists than in other cases. McGuire v. Wallis, 231 Ark. 506 , 330 S.W. 2d 714 ; Ueltzen v. Roe, 242 Ark. 17 , 411 S.W. 2d 894 . The burden of proof was upon appellee. Smith v. Kappler, 220 Ark. 10 , 245 S.W. 2d 809 . . . .”
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.