Locklear v. Oxendine’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Cutts v. Casey (1971), Andrews v. Bruton (1955)
65 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 Mobley v. . Griffin · Hanford v. McSwain · State v. . Batson · Smith v. . Benson · Town of Belhaven v. Hodges
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a party introduces a deed in evidence, which he intends to be used as color of title, he must prove that its boundaries cover the land in dispute, to give legal efficacy to his possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson“must by proof fit the description in the deed to the land it coversin accordance with appropriate law relating to course and distance, and natural objects called for as the case may be.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Johnson
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.