Neyland v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Carson v. County of Drew (2003), Owners Ass'n of Foxcroft Woods, Inc. v. Foxglen Associates (2001)
32 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 Merritt Mercantile Company v. Nelms · Montgomery v. Wallace · Patton v. State · Raney v. Gunn · Fordyce v. Hampton
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prescription is the acquisition of title to a property right which is neither tangible nor visible (incorporeal hereditament) by an adverse user as distinguished from the acquisition of title to the land itself (corporeal hereditament) by adverse possession.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The county judge, in his discretion, may designate as a county road any road that is used as a mail route or a free rural mail delivery route if the road is designated as a mail route by the proper postal authorities of the United States Government.”
1 later decision 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.