Vance v. . Guy’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 1984 · most notably Travis v. Duckworth (1953), Millers Mutual Insurance Ass'n of Illinois v. Atkinson Motors, Inc. (1954)
3 federal appellate · 38 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ T. Where the title deeds of two rival claimants to land lap upon each other, and neither is in the actual possession of any of the land covered by both deeds, the law adjudges the possession of the lappage to be in the one who has the better title. * * * “ ‘2. If one be seated on the lappage and the other not, the possession of the whole interference is in the former. * * * “ ‘3. If both have actual possession of some part of the lappage, the possession of the true owner, by virtue of his superior title, extends to all not actually occupied by the other. * * * ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The defendants were not compelled to go forward or lose their case, simply upon a prima facie showing by the plaintiff. Speas v. Bank, 188 N.C., 524 , 125 S.E., 398 . A ‘prima facie case’ means and means no more than evidence sufficient to justify, but not to compel an inference of liability, if the jury so find. It furnishes evidence to be weighed, but not necessarily to be accepted by the jury. It simply carries the case to the jury for determination, and no more.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court instructed the jury that the plaintiff had the burden of the issue, which never shifted, but `when the actor has gone forward and made a prima facie case, the other party is compelled in turn to go forward or lose his case, and in this sense the burden shifts to him.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Kelly
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.