Trimpl v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1984
2 federal appellate · 15 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 Simms v. Fagan · Fishman v. Nielsen · Benz v. City of St. Paul · Lehman v. Smith · Concannon v. Blackman
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* # * Where two adjoining owners for ten years or more mutually acquiesce in a line, definitely marked by a fence or in some other manner as the dividing line between them, such line becomes the true boundary although a survey may show otherwise and neither party intended to claim more than called for by his deed. Minear v. Keith Furnace Co., 213 Iowa 663, 666 , 239 N.W. 584 , and citations; Concannon v. Blackman, supra, 232 Iowa 722, 724 , 6 N.W.2d 116, 117 , and citations; Vander Zyl v. Muilenberg, 239 Iowa 73, 79 , 29 N.W.2d 412, 415; Eggers v. Mitchem, supra, 239 Iowa 1211, 1216 , 34 N.W.2d 603, 606 . See also Atkins v. Reagan, 244 Iowa 1387, 1390 , 60 N.W.2d 790, 791 ; Petrus v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co., 245 Iowa 222, 228 , 61 N.W.2d 439, 442 . Many other Iowa decisions which recognize this rule are cited in the annotation 69 A. L. R. 1430, 1491, 1492, supplemented in 113 A. L. R. 421, 432.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Clark
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.