Weaver v. Howatt’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 165 Cal. App. 2d 39 - Chandler v. Hibberd (1958), Weaver v. Howatt (1915)
27 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 Foss v. Johnstone · Chapman v. Polack · County of Yolo v. Nolan · Kimball v. McKee · Los Angeles Farming & Milling Co. v. Thompson
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘The propriety of this mode [i.e., the double proportionate measurement method] of adjusting boundary lines of United States sections and sectional subdivisions, in a case where the places where the original monuments were set cannot be located on the ground, and the objects referred to in the record of the official survey furnish no means of finding the actual location of the original lines or corners, is not seriously disputed. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reid v. Dunn
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.