562 So. 2d 211 - Sparks v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
18 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 Fitts v. Alexander · Lay v. Phillips · Long v. Ladd · Kubiszyn v. Bradley · Morris v. Yancey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Adverse possession by prescription requires actual, exclusive, open, notorious and hostile possession under a claim of right for a period of twenty years. See, Fitts v. Alexander , 277 Ala. 372 , 170 So.2d 808 (1965). Statutory adverse possession requires the same elements, but the statute provides further that if the adverse possessor holds under color of title, has paid taxes for ten years, or derives his title by descent cast or devise from a possessor, he may acquire title in ten years, as opposed to the twenty years required for adverse possession by prescription. Code 1975, § 6-5-200 . See, Long v. Ladd , 273 Ala. 410 , 142 So.2d 660 (1962).'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[e]xclusivity of possession "is generally demonstrated by acts that comport with ownership”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A party claiming title to property through adverse possession by prescription must satisfy each of the following elements: 1) The party must actually possess the property, 2) the party’s possession must be exclusive, 3) the party’s possession must be open and notorious, 4) the party’s possession must be hostile and under a claim of right, and 5) the party’s possession must be continuous for a period of 20 years. See Daugherty v. Miller, 549 So.2d 65 (Ala.1989); Hayden v. Robinson, 472 So.2d 606 (Ala.1985); Fitts v. Alexander, 277 Ala. 372 , 170 So.2d 808 (1965).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. White
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.