Saunders v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1959
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, the disability of this married woman who is not a party is not set up in the answer of defendants, but in our view of the case this was not necessary. The whole doctrine of an easement by prescriptive right is bottomed upon the presumption of a grant, and if the owner of the servient estate was laboring under a disability, so that she could not assert and enforce her rights, no presumption of a grant arises from adverse enjoyment of the estate. We think it was a part of complainant’s case to shoio affirmatively that during the whole of the prescriptive period the owners of the ser-vient estate were competent to convey a title.” (Our emphasis.) Saunders v. Simpson, 97 Tenn. 382 , at page 386, 37 S. W. 195 , at page 196.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tuggle v. Davies
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.