Willis v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2014
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Irion v. Nelson · Friend v. Holcombe · Zimmerman v. Newport · Board of County Com'rs of Jackson County v. Owen · Loris v. Patrick
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the owner acquiesces in or consents to the use of the land, then the use is not adverse and title by prescription cannot be acquired.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The plaintiffs ... own the land adjacent to that of the defendant, Wanda J. Holley (Holley). About 1949, plaintiffs' predecessor, Mr. Martin, began using a roadway over the Holly farm to access what is now the Willises' farm.... The Willises and their predecessors have used the roadway continuously to access the Willises' farm. [] Wanda J. Holley moved onto the farm. She fenced the previously unenclosed farm and put up a gate. After the Willises refused to close the gate, Holley refused the Willises permission to use the property. The Willises filed a quiet title action and requested an injunction. The trial court granted the injunction and quieted title to the roadway in the Willises giving them an easement....”
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.