Petrusic v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2025
4 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 12 Cal. 2d 618 - Johns v. Scobie · Torrez v. Brady · 121 Cal. App. 2d 479 - Wilkerson v. Thomas · Oglesby v. Hollister · Black Et Ux. v. Beagle
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Plaintiff Carson has had possession of the land known as the Buck place since 1930, paying all taxes, maintaining all fences around it and subsequently enclosing it within his pastures and fields, cultivating various acreages of it and raising livestock thereon; in 1944 he quieted title to the ‘sheriff’s mortgage’ in an action against Barnes Brothers of Minnesota, et al.; executed various oil and gas leases involving the property since 1945; received all rents and profits from the land since 1930, leasing portions of it — beginning probably in 1930; and in 1938 when a highway cut off segments of his property and a neighbor’s land, traded portions of the Buck place for Rule land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ferguson v. Ferguson
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.