House v. Reavis’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Lorino v. Crawford Packing Co. (1943), Land v. Turner (1964)
2 federal appellate · 102 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.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The presumption which is raised in favor of the title of the possessor of land necessarily includes the presumption that the state had parted with the title to the land to some one, and that the possessor had acquired that title. Otherwise, the presumption of title in fee could not exist.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hash v. James“There are strong reasons and good authority to sustain the position that he could not, if it were necessary to assert it in this case.”
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.