Bundy v. Echols’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1975
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 McCreary v. Jackson Lumber Co. · Owen v. Moxon · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Philyaw · Vidmer v. Lloyd · Patterson v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co.
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.
““We, of course, recognize the general rule that ordinarily in an action of ejectment the plaintiff must recover upon the strength of his own title and not the weakness of that of the defendant, but there is another well recognized exception or rule that when neither party establishes title, the plaintiff may recover under an actual, previous possession as against a mere trespasser on the land or one claiming only under a later possession. *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Yancey
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.