Wood v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.2d 714 · 1931
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Ogden River Water Users' Ass'n v. Weber Basin Water Conservancy (1956), Appalachian Electric Power Co. v. Smith (1933)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 United States v. Lee · Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson · Scott v. Neely · State of Minnesota v. Ethan Allen Hitchcock · Pusey & Jones Co. v. Hanssen
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal court of equity will not entertain a bill to quiet title by a plaintiff not in possession against a defendant in possession not only because such plaintiff has a plain, adequate and complete remedy at law in an action of ejectment, but also because defendant has the constitutional right to have the issue of title tried by a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Possession of land is denoted by the exercise of acts of dominion over it, in making the ordinary use and taking the ordinary profits, of which it is susceptible in its present state — such acts to be so repeated as to show that they are done in the character of owner, and not of an occasional trespasser.’”
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.