Saunders v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is further urged on behalf of the plaintiffs that the land in controversy, having been in the exclusive and continuous occupancy of themselves and of, their parents under whom they claim as heirs at law, for more than twenty years, they have acquired a valid title by adverse possession. To dispose of this contention it is only necessary to refer to the fact that all the persons interested in the property were made parties to the creditor’s suit instituted in 1899. The decree and ratified sale in that proceeding were effectual and conclusive in transferring to the purchaser all their right, title and interest. The subsequent possession of the property, by some of the parties to that cause, has, of course, not been of such duration as to imply a title by prescription.... The ratification of the sale invested the purchaser with the substantial ownership of the land, and as against the title granted by his deed, and the actual possession obtained for value by his grantee, the plaintiffs have no subsisting interest upon which the relief they seek in this suit can be predicated.” [Citation omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lippert v. Jung