Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Bender’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2010
13 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 Morris & Thombs v. St. Louis National Bank · Goodrum v. Ayers · Wall v. Magnes · Saybe v. Sage · Mitchell v. Titus
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is only when a defendant has shown by his answer that he has an- interest in the property adverse to plaintiff, such as will entitle him, on proper proof, to some relief in connection therewith,, that he is in position to put plaintiff to proof of his possession and ownership under the statute.””
1 later decision 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.