Ekberg v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1984
9 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 Beardsley v. Crane · Brown v. Milliner · Glenn v. Whitney Et Ux. · Kesler v. Ellis · Willie v. Local Realty Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the facts and circumstances of this case, where there is positive evidence of the establishment of the fence line plus continuing acquiescence thereafter, I am willing to agree that "acquiescence for a long period of time" heretofore required by our doctrine may be as short as seven years, thus conforming to the period provided by the statute of limitations for actions or defenses founded upon title to real property. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the instant case as we have pointed out above there was a period of actual acquiescence for more than 7 years (the Utah limitations period for adverse possession) before appellants acquired their title and under all the circumstances shown herein that was a sufficient length of time to establish the line so that appellants are precluded from claiming that it is not the true line.”
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.