United States v. Fullard-Leo’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 256 · 1947
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably County of Oneida New York v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York State New York (1985), Wheeldin v. Wheeler (1963)
36 federal appellate · 8 district · 18 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Fullard-Leo (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States · United States v. Allegheny County Pa · Territory of Hawaii v. Osaki Mankichi · Sra v. State of Minnesota · Merrit Martin v. William C Waddell
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he sufficiency of actual and open possession of property is to be judged in the light of its character and location.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]y the weight of authority, as well as the preponderance of opinion, it is the general rule of American law that a grant will be presumed upon proof of an adverse, exclusive, and uninterrupted possession for 20 years, and that such rule will be applied as a presumptio juris et de jure, wherever, by possibility, a right may be acquired in any manner known to the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may cure the neglect or failure to secure the proper muniments of title,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.