Stern v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1980
2 federal appellate · 4 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 Lind v. Stubblefield · Farmers Nat. Bank of Oklahoma City v. Gillis · Williams v. Bailey · Morton v. Orsdol · Reinhart & Donovan Co. v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary, in order to establish and maintain possession of real estate, that the claimant should actually reside upon it or have it inclosed with a fence. It is sufficient if the party, is doing such acts thereon that indicate in an open, public and visible manner that he has the exclusive control over 'the land, under a claim of • right to such exclusive possession/’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kimble v. Allen
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.