McDade v. Caplis’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1976
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“"* * * It is also shown that, when Smith acquired from other parties all the land around this lake, the properties were described as fractional quarters and as lying east or west or south of Half Moon Lake. None of his deeds pretended to include the lake. The fact that he owned the land around and adjoining the lake did not confer its ownership upon him any more than if the lake had been high, dry land, title to which was in another."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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