Costello v. Edson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1944
1 federal appellate · 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 Lessee James Ewing v. Jacob Burnet · Thomas Ellicott v. William Pearl · Brumagim v. Bradshaw · Kerr v. Hitt · Childress v. Calloway
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.
““To determine whether particular acts or a course of conduct constitute adverse possession which, if continued, will bar the title of the original owner, regard must be had to the nature or quality of the acts, and to the situation of the property, as well as to the theory upon which the doctrine of adverse possession rests. The owner becomes barred of his right by reason of his acquiescence in the hostile possession of another under a claim of right, maintained for the period of 20 (now 15) years, and of which he has notice, or which is maintained under such circumstances that he is presumed to have notice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sinclair v. Matter
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.