Godsey v. Anglin’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1981
10 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 Alexander v. Wheeler · Ex Parte Russell · Hopkins v. Duggar · Calvert v. Bynum · Baldwin v. Harrelson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is described in the suggestion, to paraphrase it, as commencing at the SE corner of NE¼ of NE¼, Section 2, supra, running thence north * * *. “ * * * There seems to be some controversy about the location of the starting point, to wit: the SE corner of NE¼ of NE¼, Section 2, supra. * * * “The description as set out in the suggestion does not indicate that there was any controversy as to the location of the corner which is the starting point. So that on its face the description as there set out is not uncertain as to the starting point. Smith v. Simmons, 228 Ala. 393 , 153 So. 633 . But if there is a controversy about it as where surveyors place it at different locations, it should be described in the suggestion and judgment by monuments, distances and courses and not by reference to a survey, Millican v. Mintz [ 260 Ala. 22 , 68 So.2d 702 ], supra; Forrester v. McFry, 229 Ala. 324 , 157 So. 68 , or other extraneous facts. Hopkins v. Duggar, 204 Ala. 626 (5), 87 So. 103 .” Godsey v. Anglin, 261 Ala. 19, 21 , 73 So.2d 92, 94 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Golden v. Rollins“[B]y adverse possession ... a boundary line between two tracts can be established so that the government survey no longer will be the location of it. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.