Wilcox v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1928
11 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 Balch v. Smith · Bowers v. Ledgerwood · Blake v. Shriver
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But if a party only claims to a given line, and makes no claim as to where such line is located, his adverse possession is limited to such line wherever the same may be established.””
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.