Jacobs v. Hafen’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2016
12 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 State v. Pena · Horton v. Goldminer's Daughter · Staker v. Ainsworth · 14 Utah 2d 135 - King v. Fronk · Van Dyke v. Chappell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'i) occupation up to a visible line marked by monuments, fences, or buildings, (ii) mutual acquiescence in the line as a boundary, (iii) for a long period of time, [and] (iv) by adjoining landowners'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Elstablishment of boundary by acquiescence requires (i) occupation up to a visible line marked by monuments, fences, or buildings, (#) mutual acquiescence in the line as a boundary, (iii) for a period of at least 20 years, (iv) by adjoining landowners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Q-2 L.L.C. v. Hughes“Neither party challenges the trial court's findings of fact, and [so] we assume them to be correct.”
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.