Witherspoon v. Brummett’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 1989 · most notably Burlingham v. Burlingham (1963), Swallows v. Sierra (1961)
28 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 Deputron v. Young · Arias v. Springer · In Re White's Estate · Wright v. Mattison · Hall v. Law
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is unnecessary to recite these defects, if any, because it matters not whether the deed was void on its face or void at all, it was color of title. * * * (citing cases) There are authorities to the contrary * * (citing cases) but the great weight of authority is opposed to these cases.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A deed purporting to convey entire tract to decedent and under which he took actual and exclusive possession operated as a disseizin of all others, and was sufficient notice to all claimants, including tenants in common, that property was claimed adversely to them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapin v. Letcher
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.