468 So. 2d 58 - Davis v. Clement’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 612 So. 2d 359 - Century 21 Deep South Prop., Ltd. v. Corson (1992), Johnson v. Black (1985)
28 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State · 319 So. 2d 652 - Paymaster Oil Mill Company v. Mitchell · Culbreath v. Johnson · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence fairly, as distinguished from in the light most favorable to the plaintiff,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“For this reason, we [on appeal] do not consider the evidence de novo, but rather we apply the same substantial evidence/manifest error standards as are generally applicable when we are reviewing the findings of trial judges.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“or unimproved lands, adverse possession may well be established by evidence of acts that would be wholly insufficient in the case of improved or developed lands. Kayser v. Dixon, 309 So.2d 526, 529 (Miss. 1975; McCaughn v. Young, 85 Miss. 277, 292-93 , 37 So. 839 , 842 (1904). Id. at 62. The land involved in the case sub judice is wild swampland, described by Gene Holliman as”
1 later decision 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.