Walsh v. Emerick’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2020
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 Goen v. Sansbury · Peters v. Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council · Shilts v. Young · Alaska National Bank v. Linck · Hemon v. Rowe Chevrolet Co.
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.
“No prescription or statute of limitations runs against the title or interest of the state to land under the jurisdiction of the state. No title or interest to land under the jurisdiction of the state may be acquired by adverse possession or prescription, or in any manner except by conveyance from the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Eastham“'The content of a particular legal doctrine, and what the facts of this case establish under such doctrine is [at] issue'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Eastham
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.