Myrick v. Peet’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1984
16 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 · 21 Cal. App. 781 - Janke v. McMahon · Randleman v. Taylor · Jacobs v. Moseley · Turner v. Baker
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Before courses and distances can determine the boundary, all means for ascertaining the location of the lost monuments must first be exhausted.’ (Tiedeman on Beal Property, see. 832). “ ‘Prima facie, a fixed visible monument can never be rejected as false or mistaken in favor of mere course and distance as the starting point, when there is nothing else in the terms of the grant to control and override the fixed and visible call. The general rule that courses and distances must yield to natural or artificial monuments rests upon the legal presumption that all grants and conveyances are made with reference to an actual view of the premises by the parties.’ (Tyler on Ejectment, 569; Garrard v. Silver Peak Mines (C.C. 9 Cir.) 82 F. 578, 585 , and cases there cited. “ ‘Monuments are facts; the field notes and plats indicating courses, distances, and quantities are but descriptions which serve to assist in ascertaining those facts.’ (Martin v. Carlin, 19 Wis. 454 , 88 Am.Dec. 696.) When there is a conflict between monuments and courses and distances, the latter must yield to the former. (Devlin on Real Estate, sec. 1029). * * * “The law, therefore, is that where monuments can be recognized by competent civil engineers, they are to be taken as the guide in fixing boundaries.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buckley v. Laird
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.