Doenz v. Garber’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Mueller v. Hoblyn (1994), DeJulio v. Foster (1986)
29 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 City of Rock Springs v. Sturm · Wyoming State Treasurer v. City of Casper · Da Shores v. Dl Lindsey · Stryker v. Rasch · Bruch v. Benedict Barnes Bros.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When specific findings of fact are made by the trial court on evidentiary matters, they are presumed correct; an appellate court will not disturb them unless they are clearly erroneous or against the great weight of the evidence. The review standard recognizes that deference must be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses, and that a reviewing court will not set aside the court’s findings merely because it might have reached a different result. * * * ” Doenz v. Gar-ber, Wyo., 665 P.2d 932, 936-937 (1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Nonpayment of taxes on adversely possessed land, while a consideration, does not in itself destroy an adverse possession claim. Rutar Farms and Livestock, Inc. v. Fuss, supra [ 651 P.2d 1129 ]; Meyer v. Ellis[,] Wyo., 411 P.2d 338 (1966). Nonpayment of taxes by the claimant is usually the case where use to a fence line rather than deed line is the primary basis of the claim. As pointed out in Meyer our Wyoming statute does not require payment of taxes in order to establish adverse possession as do some states. All the other facts and circumstances in the case now before us override any question of taxes. There was no error in that regard.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"An action for the recovery of the title or possession of lands, tenements or heredit-aments can only be brought within ten (10) years after the cause of such action accrues.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Stovall
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.