Terry v. Salazar’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 2015
5 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 Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company · Conklin v. Newman · Morrissey v. Achziger · Hartley v. Ruybal · Littlehorn v. Stratford
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a common owner acquires title to adjoining tracts, any agreement as to division that had previously been made while the ownership was in two different persons ceases to exist or be effective.... Moreover, a division fence between two properties loses its legal significance when separate ownership of the parcels is merged in one owner.... Consequently, the common ownership acquired by Mills Ranches in 1977 nullified any significance the fence had previously been accorded as a boundary between separately held parcels. Mills Ranches as a subsequent grantor could therefore freely describe its conveyance by boundaries making no reference to the fence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salazar v. Terry“A division fence often loses its utility and always loses its legal significance when separate ownership of the parcels is merged in one owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salazar v. Terry“nomenclature of the public land survey system as to the boundaries of the devised estate, without any reference to the fence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salazar v. Terry
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.