Wootters v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1955
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.
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.
“The judgment in the former action determines that W.T. Hall neither had adverse possession of the land nor asserted title to it pending the former action; for he took judgment on his disclaimer for costs, which he could not have done had he been asserting an adverse claim for possession. Having taken such a judgment on his disclaimer, he is now estopped from setting up title against one claiming through the heirs of Kercheffer, unless he can show that he has acquired title since the former action was decided.”
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.