Vorhes v. Dennison’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1965
6 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 Piney Oil & Gas Co. v. Scott · Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Ward · Prewitt v. Bull · Curtis-Jordan Oil & Gas Co. v. Mullins · Schwartz Amusement Co. v. Independent Order of Odd Fellows
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where ownership of the surface and of the minerals has been severed, title to the minerals may be acquired by adverse possession provided there has been actual, open, notorious, continuous, and hostile possession of the minerals for the statutory limitation period. The owner o.f the surface estate, or some other person, must have taken actual possession of the minerals by opening and operating mines for the statutory period. Mere possession of the surface will not give title to the minerals by adverse possession. (Citing cases).””
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.