1 Utah 2d 237 - Hummel v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2016
21 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 Baldwin v. . Brown · Union Central Life Insurance v. Caldwell · Tripp v. Bagley · Holmes v. Judge · Brown v. Milliner
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.
““The supposition of such an agreement [referring to an agreement establishing a boundary line] in cases of long acquiescence in an established line is, as I apprehend, entirely superfluous. The acquiescence in such cases affords ground, not merely for an inference of fact to go to the jury as evidence of an original parol agreement, but for a direct legal inference as to the true boundary line. It is held to be proof of so conclusive a nature that the party is precluded from offering any evidence to the contrary. Unless the acquiescence has continued for a sufficient length of time to become thus conclusive, it is of no importance. The rule seems to have been adopted as a rule of repose, with a view to the quieting of titles, and rests-upon the same reason as our statute -prohibiting the disturbance of an adverse possession which has continued for twenty years. * * * ” (Italics taken from the quotation.) . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By taking or accepting land for a highway the public acquires only the right of way and incidents necessary to enjoying and maintaining it. A transfer of land bounded by a highway passes the title of the person whose estate is transferred to the middle of the highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]hen the location of the true boundary line between two adjoining tracts of land is unknown, uncertain or in dispute, the owners thereof may, by parol agreement, establish the boundary line”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bahr v. Imus
How this case has been treated — in progress
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