Thomsen v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There was, however, a good common-law dedication of Snider street, and such being the case the fee remained in Smith, the original proprietor, burdened with an easement in favor of the public; and when, on November 27, 1808, the heirs and devisees of Smith sold and conveyed blocks 12 and 18, and comprising the lands on both sides of the street, to Samuel ,T. Walker, the grant and conveyance of the abutting premises carried, by operation of law, the fee of the street or title to the land on which it was located, subject, however, to the public easement, to said Walker, and the fee or title continued to pass, as part and parcel of each respective grant, with the several grants of the abutting premises, until it finally vested in Henry It. Walker, but still burdened with the easement; and when, in 1809, the street was vacated by the public authorities, the title was freed from the incumbrance of the easement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stone v. City of Waukegan