Edwards v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 1979 · most notably Brannon v. Lewis & Clark County (1963), Rude v. Marshall (1917)
35 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 Alexander v. Wheeler · Watrous v. Morrison · Cleveland v. Obenchain · Hoffman v. White · Taylor v. Fomby
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that adjoining landowners may, either by writing or parol, agree upon the boundary between their lands, and that their possession on either side up to the boundary so agreed upon will be mutually adverse.” (p. 663.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Thompson““ ‘It is not merely the existence of a mistake, but the presence or absence of the requisite intention to claim title, that fixes the character of the entry and determines the question of disseizin.’ ” (p. 659.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steinbruck v. Babb
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.