Baldwin v. Harrelson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1987 · most notably Limbaugh v. Comer (1956), 521 So. 2d 13 - McCollum v. Reeves (1987)
24 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 · Cooper v. Slaughter · Oliver v. Oliver · Baldwin v. Harrelson · Clarke v. Earnest
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here permanent monuments, natural or artificial, are already on the ground, shown in evidence, and incorporated in the decree, this will suffice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is firmly settled, in our decisions, that a survey of lands intended to locate the boundary between adjoining lands, followed by acquiescence and possession by both adjoining owners to the line thus located, is evidence of the verity of such line; and prima facie establishes same as a true line, without regard to the statute of limitations. Chambless v. Jones, 196 Ala. 175 , 71 So. 987 ; Cooper et al. v. Slaughter, 175 Ala. 211 , 57 So. 477 ; Oliver v. Oliver, 187 Ala. 340 , 65 So. 373 ; Smith v. Bachus et al., 195 Ala. 8 , 70 So. 261 ; Wragg v. Cook, 220 Ala. 111 , 124 So. 228 .””
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.