Shafer v. Leigh’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1979
7 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 Edwards v. Fleming · Steinhilber v. Holmes · Parks v. Baker · More v. Burroughs · Sheldon v. Atkinson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where parties by mutual agreement' fix boundary lines and thereafter acquiesce in the- lines so agreed upon, they must be considered as the true boundary lines between them, even though the period of acquiescence falls short of the time fixed by statute for gaining title by adverse possession.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBeth v. White
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.