Grayson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
279 U.S. 300 · 1929
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013
13 federal appellate · 7 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 State of Oklahoma v. State of Texas · Grayson v. Harris · Joines v. Patterson · Harris v. Grayson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While under some circumstances there may be a cause of action when the title is acquired, as where the land is then adversely held — obviously the mere acquisition of title cannot of itself give the owner of land a cause of action against persons who have not asserted an adverse claim under circumstances constituting an invasion of his justiciable rights.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Grayson“'‘Upon the facts found by the trial court, —which were not questioned by the Supreme Court, — the plaintiffs’ eause of action against the defendants did not accrue until that time. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harris v. Grayson
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.