Oswald v. Staton’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2016
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 Maupin v. Chaney · Gates v. Asher · Adams v. Slattery · Land v. Turner · El Paso Electric Railway Co. v. Lee
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.
““1. Plaintiff (appellee) proved a regular chain of conveyances from the Sovereignty of the Soil to himself. “2. Deeds did exist covering the period from 1857 to 1877 properly conveying the land in question from Kindman directly to, or through other persons, to Clark. This conclusion is based upon a presumption liberally indulged in that where there is a missing link in the chain of title many years prior to the time such issue was raised that a deed or deeds did exist covering the period.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffus v. Coon
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.