Wolcott v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1951
17 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 Hurst v. Sawyer · State Ex Rel. Goldsborough v. Huston · McClannahan v. Smith · Henderson v. Langley · Jasper County v. Wadlow
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A number of the states have passed what are known as ‘Occupying Claimants’ Acts, which are generally administered in conjnnc tion with the statutory action for the establishment of title and the recovery of possession of real property. “In Oklahoma the act is contained in article 25 of chapter 66, Wilson’s Rev. & Ann. St. 1903 (article 24, c. 87, Comp. Laws 1909). This chapter provides substantially that in all cases, any occupying claimant being in quiet possession of any lands or tenements for which he can show color of title, in the manner set forth therein, he shall not be evicted or thrown out of possession by any person or persons who shall set up and prove an adverse and better title to said lands until he has been paid the full value of all lasting and valuable improvements made thereon, and that the court rendering judgment in any ease against an occupying claimant shall at his request, for the benefit of the provisions of the act, cause an entry to be made upon the journal and set a day for the trial, and that, if on the trial there provided for the value of the same is found to be greater than the value of the rents and damages and waste, then the court shall enter judgment that the successful claimant pay to the clerK of the court for the use of the occupying claimant the full amount of the excess value of the improvements, and that the same shall he paid before the writ of ouster shall issue. The remedy provided for in this statute is full and complete, and is e”
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.