Gardner v. Mozingo’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably South Carolina Department of Natural Resources v. Town of McClellanville (2001), Brantley v. Republic Mortgage Insurance (2005)
6 federal appellate · 20 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 Wayburn v. Smith · Mullis v. Winchester · Hammond v. Lindsay · Kirkland v. Gross · Smith v. Du Rant
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he intention of the grantor [of the easement] must be found within the four corners of the deed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“terms of an unambiguous deed may not be varied or contradicted by evidence drawn from sources other than the deed itself.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Springob v. Farrar · R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club II Homeowners Association, Incorporated, R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club III at Windy Hill, R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club at Windy Hill Condominium Association“[o]rdinarily, adverse possession is a question of fact for the jury and it becomes a question of law only when the evidence is undisputed and susceptible of but one inference.”
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.