Patterson v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2011
11 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 McCann v. McCann · Lecomte v. Toudouze · Seward v. Casler · Hagey v. Detweiler · Moseman v. State ex rel. Hench
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute is a rule of conveyance. It requires a writing to create an interest in lands. But adjoining owners who adjust their division line by parols do not create or convey any estate whatever between themselves. No such thought or intention influence their conduct. After their boundary is fixed by consent, they hold up to it by virtue of the title deeds, and not by virtue of a parol transfer. Generally, indeed, they feel that their rights as defined in the title papers have been abridged rather than enlarged by the agreed line; and this because their treaty proceeds on the basis that the exact right between them is doubtful. Out of the doubtfulness of the right springs the consideration which binds parties to such agreements....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This court has, time and again, declared that: (a) Where a cause is tried by the court without the intervention of a jury, upon controverted questions of fact, and there is evidence reasonably tending to support the findings of the trial court, such findings will not be disturbed on the weight of the evidence; and (b) where the testimony is oral and conflicting, and the finding of the court is general, such finding is a finding of every special thing necessary to be found to sustain the general finding, and is conclusive upon this court upon all doubtful and disputed questions of fact. McCann v. McCann et al., 24 Okla. 264 , 103 Pac. 694 ; Seward v. Casler et al., 24 Okla. 275 , 103 Pac. 740 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thigpen v. Risby
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.