Carter v. Becton’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2015
10 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 Deputron v. Young · Poulos v. McMahan · Cooley v. All the World · Jordan v. Robinson · Ragan v. Carter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Adverse possession, in order to ripen into title, must be exclusive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the plaintiff claiming adverse possession without color of title goes into possession of only a small part of a described tract, but the evidence fails to distinguish the part of which he was in possession from that of which he was not, a verdict in favor of defendant is demanded. Carter v. Becton, 250 Ga. 617 , 300 S.E.2d 152, 154 (1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“co-possessors ... operating under the erroneous assumption that they were joint legal titleholders.”
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.