482 So. 2d 293 - Lee v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2015
19 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 457 So. 2d 365 - Tidwell v. Strickler · 445 So. 2d 553 - Scarbrough v. Smith · 443 So. 2d 1219 - Touchstone v. Peterson · Grissom v. State ex rel. Alabama College · Roberts v. Mitchell
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he burden of proof rests upon the party asserting adverse possession, and every presumption is in favor of the holder of legal title.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"When, through fraud, or a mutual mistake of the parties, or a mistake of one party which the other at the time knew or suspected, a deed, mortgage or other conveyance does not truly express the intention of the parties, it may be revised by a court on the application of the party aggrieved so as to express that intention, insofar as this can be done without prejudice to rights acquired by third persons in good faith and for value."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Vielle“[a] coterminous landowner may acquire title by adverse possession if he proves that he had open, notorious, hostile, continuous, and exclusive possession of the property for ten years. Tidwell v. Strickler , 457 So.2d 365 , 368 (Ala. 1984). He need not show color of title or any other requirements of Code of 1975, § 6-5-200 . Id.”
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.