Carney v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 1962
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Werbe v. Holt · Tull v. Ashcraft · Neely v. Jones
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When adjoining land owners acquiesce for many years in the location of a fence as the visible evidence of the line and thus apparently consent to that line, the fence line becomes the boundary by acquiescence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brockman v. Rowell
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.