Staker v. Ainsworth’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Menzies (1994), Homer v. Smith (1993)
39 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 Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · Vasquez v. Hillery · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Anthony v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [O]ccupation up to a visible line marked by monuments, fences, or buildings, (2) mutual acquiescence in the line as a boundary, (3) for a long period of time, (4) by adjoining landowners.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his court has `not hesitated ... to reverse case law when we are firmly convinced that we have erred earlier.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“derives from [the] realization, ancient in our law, that peace and good order of society [are] best served by leaving at rest possible disputes over long established boundaries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Anderson v. Fautin · Bahr v. Imus
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.