State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Cogdill v. North Carolina State Highway Commission (1971), Britt v. Allen (1977)
36 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 Locklear v. Oxendine · Andrews v. Bruton · Dulin Ex Rel. Dulin v. Faires · Locklear v. . Savage · Corbett v. Corbett
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ossession ... is denoted by the exercise of acts of dominion over the land ... in opposition to right or claim of any other person, and not merely as an occasional trespasser.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not import ill will or animosity but only that the one in possession of the lands claims the exclusive right thereto.”
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.