Utley v. Ruff’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 4 Ark. App. 153 - Clark v. Clark (1982), Hirsch v. Patterson (1980)
32 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 Terral v. Brooks · Culver v. Gillian · Bradbury v. Dumond · Stricker v. Britt · Nicklace v. Dickerson
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.
“when one is in possession of land, no one may question his claim of ownership except within seven years after the cause of action accrues.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“As already pointed out, for Mr. Ruff to have prevailed in this case, it would have been necessary for him to have proven actual acts indicating his claim of ownership in the possession of the land involved, otherwise the true owner would never know that anyone was claiming adversely and the true owner’s cause of action would not accrue until he did have actual or constructive knowledge or notice that his land was being claimed by another. . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coulson v. Hillmer
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.