Evans v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 1989
21 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 Ryan v. Schwartz
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.
“The legal title of the land in dispute standing in the name of John Evans upon the records and this fact being shown to the court, his heirs, as plaintiffs, were entitled to judgment unless the defendants showed that such title was extinguished. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Godec“"* * * It is incumbent upon one who relies upon an adverse possession to extinguish the legal title to establish the necessary facts by clear and satisfactory evidence. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Possession, however long continued, if with the permission of the true owner, will not operate to extinguish the legal title. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Godec
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.