Watson v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably Terral v. Brooks (1937), Singer v. Naron (1911)
41 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 Ringo v. Woodruff · Ogden v. Ogden · Graham v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Pulaski County v. State · Little Rock v. Wright
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“It is well settled by the authorities that this possession must be actual, open, continuous, hostile, exclusive and be accompanied by an intent to hold adversely and in derogation of and not in conformity with the right of the true owner. . . It must be hostile in order to show that it is not held in subordination and subserviency to the title of the owner.”’ -”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Head v. Farnum
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.