Whitney v. Posey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The title of a person in the actual and peaceable possession of land, claiming the same under a tax deed, void upon its face, will ripen into a good title where continuous, exclusive, adverse, and hostile possession is held thereunder for a period of 15 years."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chapman v. Tiger · Fessler v. Thompson

2. ““An adverse possession of real estate for the statutory period, held in good faith under a deed, will confer title, however defective the deed may be, and although the judicial proceedings and sale under which it is issued were void, and will do so even if the deed is void on its face.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morris v. Wells

3. ““Possession under a tax sale certificate is, during the period of redemption, an admission that the possession is subject to the owner’s right of redemption, and is not adverse to the true owner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Flatt v. Wiggs