West v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably 25 So. 3d 274 - Lowrey v. Lowrey (2009), 631 So. 2d 812 - Murphy v. Murphy (1994)
25 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 570 So. 2d 1193 - Tinnin v. First United Bank of Miss. · 558 So. 2d 858 - Stallings v. Bailey · 559 So. 2d 1048 - Polk v. Polk · 513 So. 2d 591 - Pieper v. Pontiff
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) under claim of ownership; (2) actual or hostile; (3) open, notorious, and visible; (4) continuous and uninterrupted for a period of ten years; (5) exclusive; and (6) peaceful.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The credibility of witnesses and the weight of their testimony, as well as the interpretation of evidence where it is capable of more than one reasonable interpretation, are primarily for the chancellor as trier of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantial evidence/manifest error standard of review.”
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.