Wilson v. McElyea’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 612 So. 2d 359 - Century 21 Deep South Prop., Ltd. v. Corson · Myers v. Blair · McCAIN v. TURNAGE · Mississippi State Highway Commission v. Morgan · 796 So. 2d 1004 - Dieck v. Landry
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that where, as in this present case, a use of the lands of another for roadway purposes has been open, visible, continuous, and unmolested since some point in time anterior to the memory of aged inhabitants of the community, such use will be presumed to have originated adversely.”
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.