Vaughan v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2009
7 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 Cartwright v. Canode · Woodward v. Ortiz · Dunn v. Taylor · Duncan v. Willis · Phillipson v. Flynn
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish title by adverse possession it is essential that there be more than mere claim of title and lack of overt claim on the part of others. The claimant must establish continuous and uninterrupted cultivation, use or enjoyment of the land. * * * Our courts have uniformly held that sporadic, irregular and occasional use of land does not satisfy the statutes. * * Even the maintenance of fences around the land and the placing of other improvements on the land, unaccompanied by actual occupancy or open use, does not constitute such adverse possession as will satisfy the statutes. * * * Even regular and consistent use every year for the statutory period in a manner peculiarly adapted to the nature of the land, is not sufficient if there are substantial periods of time when the land is not in actual use. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Ford
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.