Arbuckle v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1856
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1974
16 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 Watkins v. Peck · Greeno v. Munson · Ripley v. Yale
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere use, if so open and notorious as obviously to attract the notice of the owner of the soil, or if expressly shown to have come to his knowledge, will prima facie establish the right, and it will be incumbent upon the owner to show in some mode that it was not used under a claim of right... , or that he did not understand it, and was not bound to so regard it from the nature and extent of the use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. Pare““,But the mere fact of showing that the use began hy permission of the landowner is not alone sufficient to defeat the prescription.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holm v. Davis
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.