Bogard v. Barhan’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
3 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 1978 · most notably Oregon Growers' Co-operative Ass'n v. Lentz (1923), Flegel v. Dowling (1909)
3 district · 35 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 Ryan v. United States · House v. Jackson · Quinnin v. Reimers · Smiley v. Fries · Willamette Falls Canal & Lock Co. v. Gordon
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule for determining the sufficiency of a description in a deed or any other writing in relation to real property is: Can a surveyor, with a deed or other instrument before him, with or without the aid of extrinsic evidence, locate the land and establish the boundaries?””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““That is certain which can be made certain. If the land has, as a tract or lot, acquired a name to distinguish it and by which it is known, the same may be conveyed without reference to its boundaries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.