Wade v. Gilmer’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 1988 · most notably Smith v. Bachus (1915), Oliver v. Oliver (1914)
38 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 Alexander v. Wheeler · Bernstein v. Humes · McQueen v. Lampley · Torrey v. Forbes
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The proceeding for the determination of the location of a true boundary line is special in nature. The solution of the issue, when properly made under the direction of the court by having each litigant formally affirm that a particularly described line is the true line, can only be attained by a finding of the true line, giving in the verdict such data for locating it as that the sheriff may ‘establish and mark’ the true line so found. This verdict refers to no monument or barrier or course or direction. It undertook to define the true line as found by reference to a certain survey by a certain surveyor.. Manifestly, that left the matter at large. It should have been written in the verdict where the true line was to be marked by the officer. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Limbaugh v. Comer
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.