Dundalk Holding Co. v. Easter’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Richfield Oil Corp. v. Crawford (1952), Dundalk Holding Co. v. Easter (1958)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 Parker v. State · Giles v. Dirobbio · Wood v. Hildebrand · Stern v. Bennington · Ramsay v. Butler, Purdum & Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issue is a narrow one, involving merely a problem of conflicting surveys. The issue is fundamentally one of fact and the established rules as to preference are simply guides to ascertain the intention of the parties. Calls for monuments, natural or artificial, generally prevail over courses and distances. The line of an adjacent tract, if known or established [or undisputed], may as well be a call in a deed as a natural object.... “Whatever doubts may exist as to the location of the 25 perch line in the Marx deed, it seems clear that the alternate call to the southwest boundary of the Gulf Oil Corporation lot cannot be disregarded---- If the parties adopted that as a fixed point of reference it is immaterial whether it was correctly located by the City in the first instance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.