263 Pa. Super. 155 - Smith v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 295 Pa. Super. 146 - Bigham v. Wenschhof (1982), 357 Pa. Super. 187 - Castronuovo v. Sordoni (1986)
33 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 241 Pa. Super. 150 - Inn Le'Daerda, Inc. v. Davis · 6 Pa. Commw. 135 - Allegheny County Port Authority v. Flaherty · 237 Pa. Super. 478 - Kaminski Bros. v. Grassi · Camp Chicopee v. Eden · Howarth v. Miller
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]ne who claims title by adverse possession must prove that he had actual, continuous, exclusive, visible, notorious, distinct, and hostile possession of the land for twenty-one years. Each of these elements must exist, otherwise the possession will not confer title. Inn Le’Daerda, Inc. v. Davis, 241 Pa.Super. 150, 158, 159 , 360 A.2d 209, 213 (1976). An adverse possessor must intend to hold the land for himself, and that intention must be made manifest by his acts. Kaminski Brothers, Inc. v. Grassi, 237 Pa.Super. 478, 480 , 352 A.2d 80, 81 (1975). He must keep his flag flying and present a hostile front to all adverse pretensions. Commonwealth v. Bierly, 37 Pa.Super. 496, 504 (1908).”
3 later decisions 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.