Keefer v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 300 Pa. Super. 234 - Minteer v. Wolfe (1982), 360 Pa. Super. 436 - Walley v. Iraca (1987)
48 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 Sterrett v. Sterrett · Shinn v. Rosenberger · Shaffer v. Baylor's Lake Ass'n · Smith v. United States · Margoline v. Holefelder
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence need not show a constant use in order to establish continuity; rather, continuity is established if the evidence shows a settled course of conduct indicating an attitude of mind on the part of the user or users that the use is the exercise of a property right.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.