Allen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 93 Conn. App. 759 - Rudder v. MAMANASCO LAKE PARK ASS'N, INC. (2006), 91 Conn. App. 296 - Boccanfuso v. Green (2005)
27 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 Southbridge Associates, LLC v. Garofalo · State v. Tavone · 457 So. 2d 365 - Tidwell v. Strickler · 390 So. 2d 616 - Kerlin v. Tensaw Land & Timber Co., Inc. · Top of the Town, LLC v. Somers Sportsmen's Ass'n
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An adverse possessor may interrupt his or her continuous possession by acting in a way that acknowledges the superiority of the real owner's title. See Lazoff v. Padgett , 2 Conn.App. 246 , 250, 477 A.2d 155 , cert. denied, 194 Conn. 806 , 482 A.2d 711 (1984). '[T]he possession of one who recognizes or admits title in another, either by declaration or conduct, is not adverse to the title of such other. ... Occupation must not only be hostile in its inception, but it must continue hostile, and at all times during the required period of fifteen years challenge the right of the true owner, in order to found title by adverse use upon it. ... Such an acknowledgment of the owner's title terminates the running of the statutory period, and any subsequent adverse use starts the clock anew.' ... Kramer v. Petisi , 53 Conn.App. 62 , 71, 728 A.2d 1097 , cert. denied, 249 Conn. 919 , 733 A.2d 229 (1999) ; see also Top of the Town, LLC v. Somers Sportsmen's Assn., Inc ., [ 69 Conn.App. 839 , 843-44, 797 A.2d 18 , cert. denied, 261 Conn. 916 , 806 A.2d 1058 (2002) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although efforts to obtain deeds from other claimants to the property do not disprove the hostile character of a possession, efforts to buy the property from the record owner constitute an acknowledgment of the record owner's superior title, and thus disprove the adverse holding, because there has been no claim of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahill v. Morrow“[T]he possession of one who recognizes or admits title in another, either by declaration or conduct, is not adverse to the title of such other. * * * Such an acknowledgment of the owner's title terminates the running of the statutory period, and any subsequent adverse use starts the clock anew.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahill v. Morrow
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.