Yelverton v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Smith v. Vermont Marble Company (1926), Sparrow v. Hovey (1880)
32 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine which sanctions the divestiture of the true owner by hostile' occupancy is to be taken strictly, and the case is not to be made out by inference, but by clear and cogent proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simons v. McCormick
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.