Hubbard v. Curtiss’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2024
13 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 32 Cal. 2d 453 - Sorensen v. Costa · Peters v. Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council · Merryman v. Bourne · Norgard v. Busher Et Ux · 33 Wash. 2d 429 - Mugaas v. Smith
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“supposed conveyance must accurately describe the land claimed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Snook v. Bowers · Vezey v. Green“Color of title exists only by virtue of a written instrument which purports to pass title to the claimant, but which is ineffective because of a defect in the means of conveyance or because the grantor did not actually own the land he sought to convey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order to acquire title by adverse possession, the claimant must prove, by clear and convincing evidence, ... that for the statutory period his use of the land was continuous, open and notorious, exclusive and hostile to the true owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cowan v. Yeisley
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.