Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2012
8 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 Georgia Power Co. v. Irvin · Morgan v. Mitchell · Hardin v. Council · Harris v. Mandeville · Roumillot v. Gardner
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.
“Although a presumption exists that a cotenant in exclusive possession is not holding adversely to his cotenants, but for the common benefit of the others, this presumption may be rebutted where the contrary appears. Hardin v. Council, 200 Ga. 822 (1) ( 38 SE2d 549 ) (1946). And while exclusive possession, payment of taxes, and the making of improvements alone do not necessarily establish an ouster, id., a conclusion of prescriptive title may be drawn where “ ‘there have been unequivocal acts, such as . .. selling, [or] leasing . .. the premises, or a part of them.’ ” Roumillot v. Gardner, 113 Ga. 60, 63 ( 38 SE 362 ) (1901). In addition, a cotenant in possession may satisfy the “express notice” criterion by showing either: (1) that actual notice of the adverse party was “brought home” to the nonpossessory cotenant; or (2) that there are “unequivocal acts, open and public, making the possession so visible, hostile, exclusive, and notorious that notice may fairly be presumed.” Hardin, supra at 831 . See also Roumillot, supra; Morgan v. Mitchell, 104 Ga. 596, 598 (1) ( 30 SE 792 ) (1898).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. DeFoor v. DeFoor
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.