Dickens v. . Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1942
6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the claim of the party be invalid on its face, or if the deed under which he claims be void, or insufficient in form to pass title, or the description therein, be fatally defective , in such cases the possession is not adverse under our statute, because the party acquiring possession must be presumed to know the law and to see that in such cases there is no color of title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under known and visible lines and boundaries.”
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.