Cotton v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 435 So. 2d 27 - Bull v. Salsman (1983), 392 So. 2d 217 - Ford v. Alabama By-Products Corp. (1980)
56 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 Aland v. Graham · White v. Williams · Jones v. Wise · Belcher v. Belcher · Humes v. Bernstein
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]o establish an easement by prescription, the claimant must use the premises over which the easement is claimed for a period of twenty years or more, adversely to the owner of the premises, under claim of right, exclusive, continuous, and uninterrupted, with actual or presumptive knowledge of the owner. The presumption *Page 247 is that the use is permissive, and the claimant has the burden of proving that the use was adverse to the owner."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A decree establishing a boundary line between coterminous lands on evidence submitted ore tenus in open court is presumed to be correct; and in such case the trial court's conclusions will not be disturbed unless plainly erroneous or manifestly unjust. . . . And where the trial court sees and hears the witnesses testify, its findings which determine questions of fact will not be disturbed on appeal unless plainly wrong. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.