Case v. Trapp’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1912
4 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 Diehl v. Zanger · Stewart v. Carleton · Dupont v. Starring
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have no doubt the county surveyor who made the survey of 1879 was intelligent and had the purpose to be accurate. But we have no reason to suppose the one who made the survey of 1856 was not equally trustworthy, and the circumstances were • altogether more favorable to a correct result at that time than when the last survey was made. The land was then but recently located; it is highly probable that corner posts and witness trees remained; if they were gone, there might be disinterested persons in the neighborhood who had seen them and could assist in determining their location, and there was then no existing: dispute and litigation to interest parties in leading the surveyor astray.” (Case v. Trapp, 49 Mich. 59, 61 , 12 N. W. 908 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Nelson
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.