Turner v. Creech’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Practical or agreed location of a boundary line may result from long acquiescence in its location, or when drawn and acted upon by the parties, as where valuable improvements are placed with reference to it and before it is denied by either party. 5 Cyc. 930 et seq. In Flynn v. Glenny, 51 Mich. 580 , 17 N. W. 65 , it was held that purchasers of town lots have a right to locate their lot lines according to the stakes set by the plattor of the lots, and that no subsequent survey can unsettle such lines; Mr. Justice Cooley saying: ‘The question afterwards is not whether the stakes were where they should have been in order to make them correspond with the lot lines as they should be if the platting were done with absolute accuracy, but it is whether they were planted by authority, and the lots were purchased and taken possession of in reliance upon them. If such was the case, they must govern, notwithstanding any errors in locating them.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Windsor v. Sarsfield · Campbell v. City of Seattle