Ault v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2015
5 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 Ransom v. Haner · Thurmond v. Espalin · Fernandez v. Ojeda · Wessells v. State, Department of Highways · Armstrong v. Cities Service Gas Co.
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.
“held that the claimant must have had an honest belief based on reasonable grounds that he had valid title to the land when he entered it in order to establish a good faith claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snook v. Bowers“as to state adverse possession claims under color of title, we believe that good faith should be defined as an honest and reasonable belief in the validity of the title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Snook v. Bowers
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.