Phillips v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2024
5 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 Best v. Wohlford · Welborn v. Whitney · Morris v. Waldrop · Terwilleger v. Bridges · Whitehead v. Bunch
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for this rule [is] that while the owner in fee continues liable to an action, proceeding, or suit upon the adverse claim [made by someone not in actual possession (e.g., a lienholder)], he has a continuing right to the aid of a court of equity to ascertain and determine the nature of such claim and its effect on his title, or to assert any superior equity in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is well established by many decisions that the statute of limitations never runs against the plaintiff in a quiet title action who is in possession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.