Woods v. Bivens’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably State v. Hudson (1990), State v. Patterson (2006)
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Brevard v. FORTUNE · Adams v. Adams · Wells v. Coursey · Harrelson v. REAVES
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The acts relied upon to establish an ouster must be of an unequivocal nature, and so distinctly hostile to the rights of the other cotenants that the intention to disseize is clear and unmistakable----Only in rare, extreme cases will the ouster by one cotenant of other cotenants be implied from exclusive possession and dealings with the property, such as collection of rents and improvement of the property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such possession becomes adverse to the co-owners of the possessor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the possession of one tenant in common is the possession of all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.