Wentzel v. Claussen’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1984
4 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.
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.
““Where people for 20 or more-years have recognized lines as; the true boundaries throughout a whole township, there must be-most satisfactory proof that the government corners have become-absolutely ‘lost/ as distinguished from ‘obliterated/ before it will' -be allowed the township authorities or private parties to institute-a new survey and locate corners throughout a township at points-clearly not where the original corners were located.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrne v. McKeachie
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.