Grace v. Koch’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Corban v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., Et Al. (2016), 155 Ohio App. 3d 713 - Bravard v. Curran (2004)
2 federal appellate · 175 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 Wadsworth Realty Co. v. Sundberg · Philbin v. Carr · Rhodes v. Cahill · 196 W. Va. 559 - Brown v. Gobble · Larue v. Kosich
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the visible and adverse possession with an intent to possess that constitutes [the occupancy's] adverse character.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“To acquire title by adverse possession, a party must prove, by clear and convincing evidence, exclusive possession and open, notorious, continuous, and adverse use for a period of twenty-one years.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Homes v. Guess · Bailey v. George“must be such as to give notice to the real owner of the extent of the adverse claim.”
7 later decisions 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.