Adams v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2009
10 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 Hoverson v. Hoverson · Collins v. Colleran · Lowry v. Tilleny · Beitz v. Buendiger
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 one tenant in common enters and possesses land, his possession is regarded as possession by all the coten-ants, not as disseisin. Thus, there is a presumption that the cotenant holds lands with the implicit permission of the others even if the possessor should maintain the property as his own and keep the profits for himself. In order to overcome this presumption, not only must possession be open and notorious so that the owners may know of it, there must be an express or implicit ouster of them, such ouster consisting of acts or declarations of hostility sufficient to indicate a truly adverse possession and to start the statute of limitations running. An express notice is not necessary; an intention to hold the land adversely to the owners may be derived from all the circumstances of the case, especially the amount and nature of control exercised by the cotenant over the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morken v. Morken“They should not now be penalized for failing to make an explicit claim to seemingly uninterested relatives when the obvious interpretation of their actions was that they were using the land for their sole benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morken v. Morken“[nJot every undisturbed occupancy by a [former tenant] will result in a finding of ownership by adverse possession[,] ... when the acts of ownership are overt and unambiguous”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glover v. Glover
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.