Barr v. Guay’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1980
10 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 Haklits v. Oldenburg · Spooner v. Menard
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A certain lot of land having a frontage on Lake Champlain of one hundred and eighty (180) feet, more or less. “Said lot is bounded on the south by land owned by Marcell and Carolyn Guay; on the north by land owned by one John Stephen and wife; on the west by the highway Route U.S. #2, and on the east by the waters of Lake Champlain. “The eastern boundary of the lot extends north one hundred and eighty (180) feet from the established boundary, more or less, and the western boundary extends two hundred (200) feet from the established boundary, more or less (highway frontage). The northern boundary of the lot runs parallel with the established southern boundary. “There is also conveyed to the grantees herein a right-of-way in common with others over the existing road leading from Route U.S. #2, to the premises herein conveyed. “The lot of land hereby conveyed is the remaining part of a parcel of land conveyed to the grantor herein by Warranty Deed to Eileen Farrell, dated August 17, 1945, and of record in Vol. 15, page 550 of North Hero Land Records, after the conveyance of two lots of land by this grantor, one being to Stephen and wife, by Warranty Deed dated June 11, 1956 and of record in Vol. 23, page 227 of North Hero Land Records, and the other being a deed to Marcell Guay and Carolyn Guay, dated November 4, 1957, and recorded in Vol. 23, page 409 of North Hero Land Records.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To support the judgment, it is essential that the findings, or at least the evidence, firmly establish the existence of an exactly parallel relationship between the Cordner fence line and the Guay-Kropper boundary, either directly, or through their origins, if the disputed line is to be located by reference to the Cordner fence and the Barr north bound. If such a relationship cannot be evidenced, some other descriptive reference of positive effect must be established. This issue requires clear resolution, and has not had it.””
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.