Doherty v. Jensen’s Empirical Analysis

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17 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. ““It is also well settled that when a party claiming the title to land by limitation has entered upon the land without knowledge or consent of the owner but, during the claimed limitation period, he acknowledged the title thereto to be in another, such acknowledgment of itself will defeat such party’s limitation claim to the land. Houston Oil Co. [of Tex.] v. Pullen, Tex.Com.App., 272 S.W. 439 ; Wier Lumber Co. v. Eaves, Tex.Com.App., 296 S.W. 481 ; Thompson v. Richardson, Tex.Com.App., 221 S.W. 952 ; Bruni v. Vidaurri [ 140 Tex. 138 ], 166 S.W.2d 81 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morton v. Morton

2. ““It is well settled in this state that, in order for a claimant to establish a title under the ten-year statute of limitations, he must have held the land claimed continuously for the prescribed period adversely to and in hostility against the true owner thereof. Satterwhite v. Rosser, 61 Tex. 166 ; Hartman v. Huntington, 11 Tex.Civ.App. 130 , 32 S.W. 562 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morton v. Morton

3. ““Art. 5515. ‘Adverse possession’ “ ‘Adverse possession’ is an actual and visible appropriation of the land, commenced and continued under a claim of right inconsistent with and hostile to the claim of another.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cliett v. Scott