Young v. Blakeman’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably 51 Cal. 2d 702 - Ernie v. Trinity Lutheran Church (1959), Price v. De Reyes (1911)
74 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 Sneed v. Osborn · Lewis v. Ogram · Blakeman v. Miller · White v. Spreckels · Miles v. Barrows
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the rule has been established that when such owners, being uncertain of the true position of the boundary so described, agree upon its true location, mark it upon the ground, or build up to it, occupy on each side up to the place thus fixed and acquiesce in such location for a period equal to the statute of limitations, or under such circumstances that substantial loss would be caused by a change of its position, such line becomes, in law, the true line called for by the respective descriptions, regardless of the accuracy of the agreed location, as it may appear by subsequent measurements. ... It is stated by the authorities that the line so agreed on becomes in legal effect the true line, that the agreement as to the line may be in parol and that it does not operate to convey title to the land which may lie between the agreed line and the true line, but that it fixes the line itself and the description carries title up to the agreed line, regardless of its accuracy; that the agreement as to the line is not in violation of the statute of frauds, because it does not transfer title; that the parties hold up to the agreed line by virtue of their original deeds and not by virtue of the parol agreement; that ‘the division line when thus established, attaches itself to the deeds of the respective parties, and simply defines, not adds to, the lands described in each deed, ’ and that if more is thus given to one than the calls of his deed actually requires, he ‘holds the exces”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Draper v. Griffin“becomes, in law, the true line called for by the respective descriptions, regardless of the accuracy of the agreed location.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salazar v. Terry
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.