Harris v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2018
23 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 Murphy v. Carron · State Ex Rel. Edie v. Shain · Teson v. Vasquez · Miller v. Warner · Brown Paper Mill Co. v. Warnix
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it has been generally held that maintenance of a non-boundary fence and allowing cattle to have access to undeveloped land, while evidence of possession, are not sufficient in themselves to establish adverse possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Holman“'Where the claimant occupies land without color of title, in order to prevail, he must show physical possession of the entire area claimed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Holman“The performance of all or any combination of these acts of occupancy serves as evidence of actual possession but is not conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murphy v. Holman
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.