49 So. 2d 604 - Akin v. Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2008
20 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 Cragin v. Powell · Dittrich v. Ubl · City of Racine v. Emerson · Kahn v. Delaware Securities Corp. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. Sedwick
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In making a resurvey, the question is not where an entirely accurate survey would locate the lines, but where did the original survey locate such lines. * * * As stated in [8] Am.Jur., Boundaries, Section 1.02, page 819: ‘The object of a resurvey is to furnish proof of the location of the lost lines or monuments, not to dispute the correctness of or to control the original survey. The original survey in all cases must, whenever possible, be retraced, since it cannot be disregarded or needlessly altered after property rights have been acquired in reliance upon it.’ It is generally held, therefore, that a resurvey that changes lines and distances and purports to correct inaccuracies or mistakes in an old plat is not competent evidence of the true line fixed by the original plat.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is true that the determination of the location of the boundary line ... is a question of fact for the [fact finder] to decide, but, as stated in Craig v. Russell, 141 Fla. 105 , 192 So. 457, 458 [1939], “ * ⅜ * it is also true that where material or harmful error clearly appears in a survey or plat on which a judgment in ejectment is based, the judgment will be reversed.””
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.