Dodge v. Lavin’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2001
14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that [the claimant] and her predecessors did not hold this land under a color of title. The court has already found that the deed of 1857 did not in and by its description and terms include the land in question, but it does not follow, however, that it was not held under a claim of title. [The claimant] and her predecessors apparently understood that such land was covered by the deed of 1857, and she and they have accordingly occupied and exercised rights of ownership over it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carnevale v. Dupee
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.