Parrish v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2008 · most notably Long v. Ladd (1962), Stewart v. Childress (1959)
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 Forest Hill Corp. v. Latter & Blum, Inc. · Van Antwerp v. Van Antwerp · Hooper v. Bankhead & Bankhead · McCreary v. Jackson Lumber Co. · White v. Williams
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.
““means simply that when one dies in possession of land and possession is continued by his heirs, the possession of the heirs corresponds to the holding of possession under color of title although the ancestor had no color of title. White v. Williams, 260 Ala. 182 , 69 So.2d 847 [1954]; Jones v. Mitchell, 258 Ala. 651 , 64 So.2d 816 [1953]; Childs v. Floyd, 194 Ala. 651 , 70 So. 121 [1915]; Childs v. Floyd, 188 Ala. 556 , 66 So. 473 [1914]; Jordan v. Smith, 185 Ala. 591 , 64 So. 317 [1914]; 1 Am.Jur., Adverse Possession, § 195, p. 901; 2 C.J.S., Adverse Possession, § 79b., p. 623; 2 C.J., Adverse Possession, § 399, p. 198. See Blackstone’s Commentaries, Book 3, Chap. 10, pp. 176-178.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Bracy
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.