Cox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
May 1960
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reusens v. Lawson · Creekmur v. Creekmur · Hulvey v. Hulvey · Yellow Poplar Lumber Co. v. Thompson's Heirs · Thompson v. Camper
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as in the instant case, the possession is originally taken under and in privity with the title of the true owner, it may subsequently become adverse without actual notice thereof to the latter, but only in the event that the possession is accompanied by an unequivocal, clear, positive, continued disclaimer of the owner's title, such as the owner could not mistake, for the whole of the statutory period, and so notorious that there is no other reasonable conclusion than that the owner, under the circumstances, must have had notice thereof. The disclaimer, to constitute such constructive notice, may be proved by circumstantial as well as by direct evidence * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Jones
How this case has been treated — in progress
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