Bryant v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2017
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 Lipps v. Turner · Combs v. Valentine · White v. Philpot · Kentweva Coal & Lumber Co. v. Helton · Holcomb v. Swift Coal & Timber Co.
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.
““The burden was on the plaintiffs to locate the boundaries and to show that the land in dispute was embraced within the lines claimed by them. White v. Philpot, supra; Potter v. Tolliver, 219 Ky. 522 , 293 S.W. 1074 ; Kentweva Coal & Lumber Company v. Helton, 170 Ky. 211 , 185 S.W. 838 . In Combs v. Valentine, 144 Ky. 184 , 137 S.W. 1080 , the court quoted with approval the following from Pearson v. Baker, 4 Dana 321 , 323: ‘That construction is to prevail, which is most against the party claiming under an uncertain survey. It is his duty to show, and establish his corners. Preston’s Heirs v. Bowmar, 2 Bibb 493 . From which it will follow that he who sets up and relies on an outstanding claim, must show that it embraces the land in contest, and should not succeed by using it, when it is uncertain whether it embraces it or not. * * *”
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.