Wyman v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““These lands were all in Macon comity until the erection of the county of Swain. This was done by the General Assembly in February, 1871, but it was provided that the county government of Macon county should extend over the territory of the new county until it should elect its county officers, and they should be qualified and inducted into office in June, 1871. The entiles, surveys, and plats for the Rove land were all made before the time fixed for the organization of Swain county. Therefore the entries were made in Macon county, and the surveys and plats made by the surveyor of Macon county. This seems to have been proper, and the only place the entries could have been made, and the surveyor of Macon county was the proper officer to make the surveys and plats. The grant was not issued until the 2d day of May, 1872, but it was issued upon the entries, surveys, and plats in Macon county. This grant was registered in Macon county in 1873, but was not registered in the new county of Swain until 3879. It was not void, but good.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bealmear v. Hutchins