Gill v. Pringle’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 1987
14 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 Texas Western Railway Co. v. Wilson · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 71 - Sassman v. Collins · Williams v. Kuykendall · Callan v. Walters · Weber v. Chaney
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the open and hostile use of the road by the public under such circumstances as were reasonably calculated to put the landowner on notice that the public was using the land under a claim of right inconsistent with the use made and enjoyed by the owner of said land for the period of time in question, and that such use was not by express or implied license or permission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barstow v. State
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.