Wood v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1965 · most notably Howell v. City of Dothan (1937), Branyon v. Kirk (1939)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hodge v. Joy · Andrews v. Grey · Smith v. Bachus · Copeland v. Warren · Yauger v. Taylor
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * In Baldwin v. Harrelson et al., 225 Ala. 386 , 143 So. 558, 559 , it is declared as the established rule of our cases dealing with the establishment of disputed boundary lines between coterminous landowners that because the dispute thereof is affected by adverse possession and in fact involves the title to a strip of land in dispute between the undisputed holdings of coterminous landowners `is none the less a boundary controversy and within the statutory powers of the chancery court.' * * *.”
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.