Birnie v. Main’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 Cheesebrough v. Millard
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to bar a suit for the foreclosure of a mortgage there must not only be an adverse possession for such length of time as would bar an action of ejectment, but there must be an open and notorious denial of the mortgagee’s title; otherwise the possession of the Mortgagor was the possession of the mortgagee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Woolfolk
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.