Ralston v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
February 1987
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fulcher v. Dierks Lumber & Coal Co. · Terral v. Brooks · Gibbs v. Bates · Pearman v. Pearman · Thomason v. Abbott
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The equity jurisdiction to quiet title, independent of statute, can only be invoked by a plaintiff in possession, unless his title be merely an equitable one. The reason is that where the power is purely a legal one, and some one else is in possession, the remedy at law is plain, adequate and complete, and an action of ejectment cannot be maintained under the guise of a bill in chancery. In such case the adverse party has a constitutional right to a trial by jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The jurisdictional requirement that a party be in possession to quiet title to land in equity has been approved by this court many times. Gibbs v. Bates, 150 Ark. 344 , 234 S.W. 175 (1921); Rice v. Rice, 206 Ark. 937 , 175 S.W.2d 201 (1943); Lowe v. Cox, 210 Ark. 169 , 194 S.W.2d 892 (1946).”
2 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.