Calfee v. Duke’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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 Pearson v. Doherty · Bruni v. Vidaurri · Butler v. Hanson · Bruce v. Washington · Wright v. Vernon Compress Company
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For their possession to be adverse, the claimants need not know that the claimed tract is part of the property to which an adjoining landowner has record title. But the mere occupancy of land without any intention to appropriate it is not adverse possession. No matter what the use and occupancy of the land may be, for possession to be adverse the claimants must intend to appropriate it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.