Ryan v. Fulford’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1990
12 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 Stansell v. Tharp · Ashurst v. McKenzie · Sims v. Sims · Edwards v. Smith · Ford v. Beam
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is well settled that the government survey of lands into sections does not establish the ground location of the interior subdivision lines, such as we have here, but provides a basis for locating such lines. Nolin v. Parmer, 21 Ala. 66 ; Edwards v. Smith, 240 Ala. 397 , 199 So. 811 ; Sims v. Sims, 273 Ala. 103 , 134 So.2d 757 . The only question in this kind of proceeding is whether the trial court is reasonably satisfied from legal evidence as to the correctness of the line as found and fixed in the decree. Stansell v. Tharp et al., 245 Ala. 270 , 16 So. 2d 857 . It should find the true line, whether or not it is the one contended for by either party. Ford v. Beam, 241 Ala. 340, 2 So.2d 411 ; Edwards v. Smith, 240 Ala. 397 , 199 So. 811 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deese v. Odom
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.