Sutton v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1992
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law presumes that those in possession are rightfully in possession and he who claims -that they are unlawfully in possession has to satisfy the jury by the preponderance of the evidence that he has a good title and a -better title than the defendant. He is to recover by the strength of his own title.””
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.