Cunningham v. Eastham’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2018
6 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 Orsborn v. Deep Rock Oil Corp. · Callahan v. Staples · Butler v. Hanson · A. F. Jones & Sons v. Republic Supply Co. · Holland v. Nance
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that limitation title cannot be acquired by grazing unenclosed land.... And it is of course true that title cannot be acquired merely by fencing land without grazing it or farming it or putting it to other use. When the use relied upon to support the statute is grazing, there must be also at the same time sufficient enclosure, such as to give evidence that the land was designedly enclosed and to show the assertion of claim hostile to the true owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. McGinnes
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.