Hightower v. Pendergrass’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2010
4 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 Burrows v. Gallup · Wing v. Hall · Ballard v. Hansen · Griffin v. Mulley · Robison v. Swett
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Seven-year period runs from time right accrued — Extent of possession. — (a) No person or anyone claiming under such person shall have any action, either at low or in equity, for the recovery of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, but within seven (7) years after the right of action accrued. (b) No possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments shall be deemed to extend beyond the actual possession of an adverse holder until the muniment of title, if any, under which such adverse holder claims such lands, tenements or hereditaments is duly recorded in the county in which the lands are located.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Price
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.