Porter v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2018
13 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 Woodward v. Ortiz · Landers v. East Texas Salt Water Disposal Co. · McKelvy v. Barber · Cook v. Smith · Rosenborough v. Cook
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.
“Every suit to recover real estate as against a person having peaceable and adverse possession thereof, cultivating, using or enjoying the same, and paying taxes thereon, if any, and claiming under a deed or deeds duly registered, shall be instituted within five years next after cause of action shall have accrued, and not afterward.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Bell v. Ott“are commonly used to convey 'interests of an unknown extent or claims having a dubious basis.' A quitclaim deed conveys upon its face doubts about the grantor's interest.”
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.