Bruce v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 1976 · most notably Orsborn v. Deep Rock Oil Corp. (1954), Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Stepney (1916)
80 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“■'“If they believed defendants entered the land and held it ever since under the belief that it was included in their deed, and with no intention to claim or hold the same adversely to the true owner, if not included in the deed, then their possession was not adverse.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gholston v. Cook
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.