Black v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1983
12 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 Oxford v. Estes · Vaughan v. State · Jones v. Rutledge · Williams v. Dent · Dew v. Garner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Based upon the theory that men do not ordinarily sleep on their rights for so long a period (Turner v. Turner, 202 Ala. 515 , 81 So. 17 ), this court is committed to the principle that, under the circumstances above outlined, the entire title vests in such occupant under the doctrine of prescription (Miller v. Vizzard Investment Co., 195 Ala. 467 , 70 So. 639 ; Copeland v. Martin, 201 Ala. 472 , 78 So. 378 ; Turner v. Turner, supra; Heath v. Lewis, 200 Ala. 509 , 76 So. 451 ; Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Broadhead, 210 Ala. 545 , 98 So. 789 ; Jones v. Rutledge, 202 Ala. 213 , 80 So. 35 ) which, as often here reiterated, is a rule of repose (Oxford v. Estes, 229 Ala. 606 , 158 So. 534 ). It results, therefore, that, in our opinion, the title was perfected in Wash Black, and that his heirs alone, as named in the original bill, are entitled to share in the proceeds of the sale.”
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.