235 Mo. App. 1289 - Edie v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of Equalization (1991), Schiles Ex Rel. Schiles v. Schaefer (1986)
25 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 City of Rock Springs v. Sturm · Seymour v. . Wilson · People v. Johnson · Renshaw v. Reynolds · Collins v. City of Ashland
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The intent of a person cannot be proven by direct and positive evidence. It is a question of fact, to be proven, like any other fact, by acts, conduct, and circumstances'. People v. Johnson, 131 Cal. 511, 514 , 63 P. 842, 843 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The fact that one encroaches on his neighbor's property * * * thinking the property is his * * * is not controlling on the question as to whether the possession is adverse. If it were, the protection of the statute would be limited to those who deliberately set out to steal neighbor's property * * *". [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norman v. Allison · Haney v. Olson“`in the absence of positive proof or unambiguous circumstances showing that a possession is or is not adverse, the exclusive possession and use of land are presumed to be adverse.'”
2 later decisions 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.