Edgeller v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Fairchild v. Mathews (1966), Meridian Bowling Lanes, Inc. v. Brown (1966)
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 Bayhouse v. Urquides · 92 Cal. App. 393 - Phelan v. Drescher · Calkins v. Kousouros · O'Malley v. Jones · Ryan v. Day
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * a finding, supported by substantial competent evidence, of an agreed boundary line has the effect of extending or diminishing the limits of the respective deeds to include and exclude the parcel of land in dispute; under such circumstances the payment of taxes and assessments in this manner is a payment on the land in possession of the respective parties and, hence, satisfies the requirements of the statute which requires the payment of taxes to perfect title by adverse possession. Calkins v. Kousouros, 72 Idaho 150 , 237 P.2d 1053 ; Mulder v. Stands, 71 Idaho 22 , 225 P.2d 463 ; Kesler v. Ellis, 47 Idaho 740 , 278 P. 366 ; O’Malley v. Jones, 46 Idaho 137 , 266 P. 797 ; Bayhouse v. Urquides, 17 Idaho 286 , 105 P. 1066 . * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[WJhere such right has been definitely defined by erection of a fence ... followed by such adjoining landowners treating [the fence] as fixing the boundary for such length of time that neither ought to be allowed to deny the correctness of its location. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Berg v. Fairman · Dreher v. Powell“1. Where it has been protected by a substantial inclosure. 2. Where it has been usually cultivated or improved. “Provided, however, that in no case shall adverse possession be considered established under the provisions of any sections of this code unless it shall be shown that the land has been occupied and claimed for the period of five years continuously, and the party or persons, their predecessors and grantors, bave paid all the taxes, state, county or municipal, which have been levied and assessed upon such land according to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hyde v. Lawson
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.