Snedeker v. . Warring’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions

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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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I apprehend the question, whether the pyramids of Egypt or Cleopatra’s Needle are real or personal property, does not depend on the result of an inquiry by the antiquarian whether they were originally made to adhere to their foundations with wafers, or sealing wax or a handful of cement. It seems to me puerile to make the title to depend upon the use of such or of any other adhesive substances, when the great weight of the erection is a much stronger guaranty of permanence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re John Liddle Cut Stone Co.

2. ““A thing may be as firmly affixed to the land by gravitation as by clamps or cement. Its character may depend much upon the object of its erection. Its destination, the intention of the person making the erection often exercises a controlling influence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re John Liddle Cut Stone Co.