Craig v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 1969 · most notably Smith v. Jones (1910), Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Stepney (1916)
3 federal appellate · 57 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 Word v. Drouthett · Read v. Allen · Texas Land Co. v. Williams · Ex parte Coupland · Charle v. Saffold
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession, with the exercise of such rights as pertain to an owner alone, must be deemed sufficient evidence of adverse claim, in the absence of some evidence indicating that it is held in subordination to the title of the real owner.”
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.