Pounders v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Bryan v. W. T. Smith Lumber Co. (1965), T. R. Miller Mill Co. v. Ralls (1966)
29 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 Smith v. Bachus · Oliver v. Oliver · Hess v. Rudder · Wade v. Gilmer · Deal v. Hubert
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a witness who is not an expert surveyor [or any other kind of surveyor, we apprehend] may testify to existing and visible lines and monuments which have been adopted or assented to by adjacent owners.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'In cases of disputed boundary, all evidence , whether documentary or parol , which bears upon the point in issue and which is not inadmissible on general principles, may be received in evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any testimony tending to show the location of the line as established by the government survey is admissible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.