Mitchell v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2010
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Rogerson v. Shepherd · 62 W. Va. 223 - Walton v. Knight · Hartman v. Fick · Ames v. Shaw
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A private right of way by prescription may bo acquired over another’s land by visible, continuous, and uninterrupted use thereof for ten years, under a bona fide claim of right, with the acquiescence of the owner.” “Such -use is presumed to be with the knowledge and acquiescence of the owner, and to prima facie give the right; which presumption will be conclusive, unless accompanied by the protest and objection of the owner under such circumstances as to repeal it.” “When there has been such use of another’s land for the period requisite to create an easement by prescription, the bona fides of the claim of right is established.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Pure Oil Co.
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.