445 So. 2d 553 - Scarbrough v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 486 So. 2d 408 - Hall v. Mazzone (1986), 495 So. 2d 1072 - Wallace v. Putman (1986)
27 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 388 So. 2d 964 - Pinson v. Veach · Hayes v. Cotter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`resolves conflicting questions of fact in favor of one of the parties, its findings will not be disturbed on appeal unless they were clearly erroneous or manifestly unjust.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Evidence in adverse possession cases is especially difficult to weigh from the vantage point of an appellate court. Witnesses often testify with reference to exhibits and make gestures not capable of preservation in the record. . . . The presumption of correctness normally attending findings in an ore tenus case is, therefore, especially strong in adverse possession cases. Where the trial court makes findings of fact in order to establish a land line, the court's findings will be sustained if there is any credible evidence to support the findings. . . ." 445 So.2d at 555-56 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘If a coterminous landowner holds actual possession of a disputed strip under claim of right, openly and exclusively for a continuous period of 10 years, believing that he is holding to the true line, he will acquire title to that line, even though the belief as to the comet location of the line originated in a mistake.’ Scarbrough v. Smith, 445 So.2d 553, 556 (Ala.1984) (emphasis added). ‘[0]ne does not have to be a willful landgrabber or dishonest in order to acquire title by adverse possession.’ Sylvest v. Stowers, 276 Ala. 695, 699 , 166 So.2d 423, 427 (1964).””
2 later decisions 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.