Goodman v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1951
12 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 Thomas Ellicott v. William Pearl · Hall v. Law · Walker v. Hill · Roots v. Beck · Chandler v. Spear
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He entered into possession under a claim of ownership, and not as mortgagee or the trustee of anyone. He continued in the actual, visible and exclusive possession, under claim of title, . . . —a period of nearly 23 years — paying the taxes and making valuable improvements thereon as owner. A title by prescription arises in the adverse occupant at the end of 15 years, if the owner labors under no disability.” (p. 29.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fear v. Barwise““Although the deed under which he claimed was void, it afforded color of title.” (Goodman v. Nichols, 44 Kan. 22, 29 , 23 Pac. 957 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Browning
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.