Flesher v. Callahan’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 1976 · most notably Coats v. Riley (1931), Honeyman v. Andrew (1926)
55 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 Sharon v. Tucker · Crary v. . Goodman · Solts v. Southwestern Cotton Oil Co. · Huston v. Scott · Moore v. First Nat. Bank of Iowa City
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of adverse possession is to be taken strictly. Such a possession is not to be made out by inference, but by clear and positive proof. Every presumption is in favor of possession in subordination to the title of the true owner.””
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.