Hornthal v. . Howcott’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 10 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The conveyance is of all the trees and timber on the premises, with the proviso that the vendee should take the same off the land within four years. It is well settled, on (388) principle and by authority, that the legal effect of the instrument is that the vendor thereby conveyed to the vendee all of the trees and timber on the premises which the vendee should remove therefrom within the prescribed time, and that such as remained thereon after that time should belong to the vendor or to his grantee of the premises.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. . Scarboro

2. “The true construction of this instrument (a contract for cutting timber within a fixed period) is that the same conveys a present estate of absolute ownership in the timber, defeasible as to all timber not removed within the time required by the terms of the deed; and this statement of the law is approved in Lumber Co. v. Corey , 140 N.C. 467 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wilson v. . Scarboro

3. ““The pine and poplar timber having been previously sold, to the John L. Boper Lumber Company, and is excepted from this deed””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Granville Lumber Co. v. Atkinson