Hartung v. Witte’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Gordon v. Lake (1962), Green County v. Mary Amis Quinlan Q (1909)
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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.
““Where there is an agreement or acquiescence in a wrong boundary, when the true boundary can be ascertained from the deed, it is treated both in law and equity as a mistake, and neither party is estopped from claiming to the true line.” (Hartung v. Witte, 59 Wis. 285, 299 , 18 N. W. 175 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winters v. Bloom““There must be an uncertainty as to the true line, and some question, dispute, or controversy about it which can be settled by such an agreement or acquiescence.””
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.