Hollenback v. Ess’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1914
8 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.
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.
““In other words, as fifteen years’ possession under a claim of title is, generally speaking, by the statute of limitations a bar to an action brought by one under no disability, proof of such possession is sufficient evidence of title.” (Hollenback v. Ess, 31 Kan. 87, 88 , 1 Pac, 275 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beeler v. Sims
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.