Auldridge v. Spraggin’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Cantrell v. City of Caruthersville (1949), Porter v. Posey (1979)
39 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 Brown v. Weare · Rhodus v. Geatley · Ballenger v. Windes · Gibbany v. Walker · Primm v. Raboteau
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the strip was not expressly described in the deeds in plaintiffs’ chain of title does not affect plaintiffs’ claim of ownership. The rule appears to be where land adversely held is included in the same enclosure with land owned and conveyed by the grantor, the taking of possession by the grantee of the entire enclosed area creates a privity with the grantor as to the portion not conveyed. 1 Am.Jur., Adverse Possession, § 158. Thus, the possession of such a grantor becomes tacked to that of his grantee.” (Emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Counts v. Moody
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.