Wilson v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1948
7 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 Webb v. Rhodes · Logsdon v. Dingg · Spacy v. Evans · Grover v. Paddock · Herbst v. Smith
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the line lies and where its corners are questions which the surveyor, on account of his superior facilities for so doing, may be called upon officially to determine. What the lines and corners are is a matter of law, which courts alone can declare. Ayres v. Huddleston (1903), 30’ Ind. App. 242. In instances where the party in possession has held beyond the lines specified in his deed until such possession has ripened into title, it has uniformly been held that a survey does not operate to deprive him of the title thus acquired. Logsdon v. Dingg (1904), 32 Ind. App. 158 ; Webb v. Rhodes (1902), 28 Ind. App. 393 . . . . The language used in Spacy v. Evans (1899), 152 Ind. 431 , has manifest relation to cases in which the question of title is at issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.