181 Ind. App. 208 - McCarty v. Sheets’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Q. What parts or what territory around the garage have you used in your occupancy of the house? Have you used the land behind and to the side of the garage? “A. I have mowed it, if you mean that. “Q. All right. “A. I have mowed it. “Q. And how far — how far west have you mowed it, referring to the side of your garage? “A. I mowed over to the middle to the line. I mowed it, maintained it, protected it, cut dock out of it, thistles, and would rake the leaves off of it for about twenty years. “Q. All right and is that continuously from the time you took possession of that house up to the present time? “A. For twenty years, yes. “Q. During the period of time you’ve owned the property have you paid the taxes as they were assessed against your real estate? “A. I have.” “Transcript pages 136-137— “Cross-examination of Carl A. Sheets: “Q. Now as I understand, when you were talking about mowing, cutting thistles, weeds, and pulling all of the bad things around the garage that you said that you had been doing this continuously for more than twenty years, is that correct? “A. I have done it every year for twenty years. “Q. Well you said something to the effect as I wrote it down here that you had done this for more than twenty years? “A. Twenty years. “Q. All right, did you — were you doing this before you bought the property? “A. I — no. “Q. In other words, you didn’t go over there for Mr. Irie or Mrs. Irie or whoever you bought it from to pull weeds? “A. I did not. “Q. And police tha”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. McCarty v. Sheets