Carpenter v. Ruperto’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2015
1 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Creel v. Hammans · Pearson v. City of Guttenberg · I-80 Associates, Inc. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad · Hogan v. Chesterman · Abel v. Abel
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of adverse possession presupposes a defective title. . . . If the statute were to run only in favor of a valid title, it would serve no purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party claiming title by adverse possession must establish hostile, actual, open, exclusive and continuous possession, under claim of right or color of title for at least ten years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clymer v. SHAWD“A cross-appeal may be taken within the thirty days for taking an appeal or in any event within five days after the appeal is taken.”
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.