10 Utah 2d 370 - Harding v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2024
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 Tripp v. Bagley · Brown v. Milliner · Home Owners' Loan Corporation v. Dudley · 2 Utah 2d 119 - Ringwood v. Bradford · 9 Utah 2d 102 - Christensen v. Christensen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The occupancy intended as a requirement in satisfying the rule may be actual or constructive, by an owner, who may frequently or occasionally enter and physically occupy his land, but who must be shown to have occupied it thus at such reasonable intervals and during a period within which a boundary by acquiescence might be acquired, as to have knowledge of the physical facts that, through passage of time, might create rights in others to his land under the doctrine, with an opportunity to interrupt their fruition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Fautin“no boundary by aequiescence could be acquired as to [his land], which was vacant, because of [his own] nonoccupaney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Fautin“there was an old board fence between the properties that was rotting away, and whose boards were falling off,”
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.