Allen v. Mansfield’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1990
16 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 Cook v. Stearns · Nelson v. Brodhack · Inhabitants of School-District No. Four v. Benson · Fuhr v. Dean · Meyer v. Pacific Railroad
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ten years’ consecutive adverse possession, under claim of title, gives the title to the occupant as effectually as any written conveyance. It takes away the title of the real owner and transfers it to the occupant. ‘The party who acquires a title to land under the statute by possession adverse to the true owner, acquires all the title of the true owner precisely as if he had a deed from him.’ The statute of limitations gives a perfect title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mings v. Mings
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.