Seton v. Swann’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
6 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 576 So. 2d 281 - State v. Williams · 587 So. 2d 1323 - Roe v. CITY INVESTING/GENERAL DEV. CORP. · 403 So. 2d 409 - Seddon v. Harpster · Meyer v. Law · 575 So. 2d 679 - Bailey v. Hagler
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“95.16 Real property actions; adverse possession under color of title.— (1) When the occupant, or those under whom he claims, entered into possession of real property under a claim of title exclusive of any other right, founding the claim on a written instrument as being a conveyance of the property, or on a decree or judgment, and has for seven years been in continued possession of the property included in the instrument, decree, or judgment, the property is held adversely. If the property is divided, into lots, the possession of one lot shall not be deemed a possession of any other lot of the same tract. Adverse possession commencing after December 31, 1945 shall not be deemed adverse possession under, color of title until the instrument upon which the claim of title is founded is recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit cQurt of the county where the property is located. (2) For the purpose of this section, property is deemed possessed in any of the following cases: (a) When it has been usually cultivated or improved. (b) When it has been protected by a substantial enclosure. All contiguous land protected by the enclosure shall be property included within the written instrument, judgment,' or decree, within the purview of this section....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dadd v. Houde
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.