Musick v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1956
16 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 Bishop v. Schneider · Draper v. Shoot · Maupin v. Emmons · Stevens v. Hampton · Jackson v. Frier
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would endanger property riglits to permit a loose claim to land, with such acts of ownership only as might he exercised without attracting the attention of the real owner, and without occupancy, to ripen into title. The indications of the claim of possession should he so patent that the real owner could not be deceived.””
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.