David Hunt v. Robert Wickliffe’s Empirical Analysis
27 U.S. 201 · 1829
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1936
5 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 John Green v. John Liter
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where two persons are in possession of distinct portions of the land in controversy, it is well settled that he who has the better right is in constructive possession of all not actually occupied by his adversary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.