Block v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
September 2005
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Estate of Hobelsberger · Randall v. Burk Township · City of Rapid City v. Hoogterp · Mason v. Braught · Arneson v. Spawn
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In retracing lines or making the survey the surveyor shall take care to observe and follow the boundaries and monuments as run and marked by the original survey, but shall not give undue weight to partial and doubtful evidence or appearances of monuments, the recognition of which shall require the presumption of marked errors in the original survey, and he shall note an exact description of such apparent monuments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Titus v. Chapman
How this case has been treated — in progress
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