Blaffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2009
22 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 Hoodless v. Winter · Maddox Bros. & Anderson v. Fenner · Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Village Mills Co. · French v. Olive · Adams v. Houston & Texas Central Railway 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The public policy of this state, as announced in repeated decisions, demands the security of land titles emanating from the state, and, where ancient boundary lines have been recognized for long periods of years, they will not be lightly disturbed, to the detriment of those who have dealt upon the faith of them. . . . Property rights, extending into the millions of dollars, are based upon that location and its recognition.” 7”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The state contends that the judgments in the Tomey and Goldman suits are not binding upon the state, and are therefore as to the state not competent evidence in locating the boundaries involved. We do not agree with this holding. The general rule of law relied upon is that a judgment is binding only as to those party or privy to it. In the establishment of ancient boundaries, however, a relaxation of the strict rules of evidence, ordinarily applied in establishing other facts, is frequently met with. See Texas Jurisprudence, vol. 7, pp. 209, et seq. “In Porter v. State, 15 S.W.2d 191 (error refused) this court held (Justice Baugh writing) that, ‘though the parties to and lands involved in two actions are different, yet the same original surveys, boundary lines, and acts of the same surveyors, which determine the second action, having been involved in the other prior action, the determination of those matters by the highest court of the state in the prior action are binding and conclusive in the subsequent action, not as res judicata, but under the doctrine of stare decisis.’ (Quotation is from the syllabus.) The record here shows that in the two contested cases, which were tried more than 20 years before the trial of this case and involved the same boundaries here in issue, a number of witnesses, now deceased, had testified, and much evidence had been obliterated, due to intensive oil development, fires, etc. While the above announced rule of stare decisis only applies to th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“■ “1. I find that GC&SF RR Block 1, consisting of forty surveys numbered from 1 to 40, inclusive, in Crockett County, Texas, is shown by certified copy of Field Notes from the General Land Office of the State of Texas to have been surveyed by H. C. Barton, Deputy Surveyor, Bexar District. Sections 1 to 22 are certified to have been surveyed on the 16th day of June, 1880. Sections Nos. 23 to 40 are shown to have been surveyed on June 17, 1880. The field notes show that on Sections Nos. 1 to 22 that there are nineteen stone mounds called for, and on Sections Nos. 23 to 40 there are eighteen stone mounds called for. There are numerous calls in the surveys in this Block for crossings of the Fort Lancaster-Grierson Springs Road and also for crossings of Live Oak Creek. This Block of land appears to be laid out on each side of Live Oak Creek. There is no distance given to any crossing on said road or on said creek in any of the surveys from any given point, and there is no bearing given to any object in any of the Field Notes of said forty sections of land although there is no section in said Block but what has one or more rock corners called for. “2. I find that it would have been impossible for this forty sections of land to have been surveyed in two days, and I find that such fact and the further fact that no bearings for corners are called for and no distances given to any place of crossing of said road and creek indicates that said survey was not made on the ground. “3. I furt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lear v. Graeber
How this case has been treated — in progress
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