Garrett v. Ramsey’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1958 · most notably Marine Railway & Coal Co. v. United States (1921), Parkersburg Industrial Co. v. Schultz (1897)
2 district · 36 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 Core v. Faupel · John Green v. John Liter · McClure v. Maitland · McDowell's Ex'or v. Crawford · Kincheloe v. Tracewells
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, in the case of an interlock, if the owner of the elder title be in the actual possession of a part of the land covered by his patent, but outside of the interlock, and the holder of the junior patent be in possession of a part of the land covered by his patent, but outside of the interlock, the actual possession of the holder of the better title is deemed to extend to, and cover, every part of the interlock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jarvis v. Johnson““In a controversy affecting real estate, possession of a part shall not be construed as possession of the whole, when an actual adverse possession can be proved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jarvis v. Johnson“possession of a part shall be construed as possession of the whole.”
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.