Brown v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably United States v. Kansas City Life Insurance (1950), Anson v. Tietze (1945)
43 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 State Ex Rel. Edie v. Shain · Hecker v. Bleish · Tillman v. Hutcherson · State Ex Rel. Brown v. Hughes · Courtner v. Putnam
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The rule is that while one’s occupancy of an adjoining proprietor’s land under a mistake as to the boundary line, and without any intention of claiming beyond the true boundary line, when ascertained, is not adverse possession, yet if he takes and holds possession up to a given point, and claims to be the owner to such point, his possession is adverse, notwithstanding his belief that such point is the true boundary line, when in fact it is not.’ Brown v. Wilson (Banc), 348 Mo. 658, 666 [8], 155 S.W.2d 176, 180 [10, 11] [1941].” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Norman v. Allison · Anson v. Tietze
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.