Sabariego v. Maverick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 1 district · 47 state decisions

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

1. ““If a thing belonging to another person is sold to two persons at different times, he who took possession first has the better right to it, always reserving the right of the true owner. Consequently, color of title, c’oupled with possession, gives to the vendee a real right against everyone except the owner; and therefore it is not lawful for third parties to impugn the title, thus exercising the right reserved alone to the owner or his successor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Bradshaw v. Ashley

2. ““It follows that in eases where the proof on the part of the plaintiff does not show a possession continuous until actual dispossession by the defendant or those under whom he claims, the burden of proof is upon the plaintiff to show that his prior possession has not been abandoned.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lindblom v. Rocks

3. “"This rule [of prior possession] is founded upon the presumption that every possession peaceably acquired is lawful, and is sustained by the policy of protecting the public peace against violence and disorder."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Reiter v. Coastal States Gas Producing Co.