Ross v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1942
8 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 McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Riggs v. Fuller · Woodstock Iron Co. v. Roberts · Bell v. Denson · Philippi v. Philippi
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Continuity is an essential element of an adverse holding, such as can ripen into a title. Different entries, at different times, by different persons, between whom there is no privity of estate, nor connected claim of rightful holding, are but a succession of trespasses, and neither can furnish any support to the other.” Ross v. Goodwin, 88 Ala. 390 , 6 South. 682 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Little v. Vice
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.