Brewer v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 160 W. Va. 84 - Somon v. Murphy Fabrication & Erection Co. (1977), State v. Brooks (1969)
26 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 Maxwell Land Grant Co. v. Dawson · State v. Lambe · Winstead v. . Woolard · Hardy v. . Mayo · Starnes v. . Hill
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The hostility requirement] only means that the one in possession of the land claims the exclusive right thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slade v. Petty
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.