15 Utah 2d 156 - Fuoco v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 18 Utah 2d 282 - Fuoco v. Williams (1966), Hales v. Frakes (1979)
32 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 14 Utah 2d 135 - King v. Fronk · 2 Utah 2d 119 - Ringwood v. Bradford
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Any number of ditches could crisscross one’s property for the purpose of irrigating land without any contention or realistic assumption that they were to be boundary lines, — even though by permission, others may have used the dry land in between.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Occupation up to a visible line marked definitely by monuments, fences, or buildings and (2) acquiescence in the line as the boundary (3) for a long period of years (4) by adjoining landowners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hales v. Frakes“had occupied the land up to [a] ditch for a long period of years”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Fautin
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.