Milstead v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1983
14 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 Branyon v. Kirk · City of Birmingham v. Henry · Gunn v. Parsons · Brantley v. Helton · Crowder v. Doe ex dem. Tennessee C. I. & R. R. 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The exclusive possession of the lands by the plaintiffs and their predecessors in title for the prescriptive period is regarded in law as having vested a perfect title and equivalent in legal effect to one acquired by a formal grant or conveyance, and could only be divested in the manner in which any title may be divested, such as by a conveyance or by actual adverse possession.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Mitchell
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.