Walthall v. Yohn’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 1982 · most notably Stewart v. Childress (1959), Spradling v. May (1953)
34 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 George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams · Tensaw Land & Timber Co. v. Rivers · Turnipseed v. Moseley · Price v. Robinson · Brunson v. Bailey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law places such a high dignity upon a regular documentary title and requires such strict formalities to evidence it that a necessary con-comitant is that in order to work a divesture of that title by adverse possession, all the essential elements must be proven by the stated measure of proof, and that proof must show that there has been an actual occupancy, clear, definite, positive, notorious, continuous, adverse and exclusive for the requisite period under claim of right of the definite tract involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Childress
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.