Lawrence v. Fulton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 15 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The Court charged the jury that to enable the plaintiff to ■recover they must be -satisfied that the person under whom he claimed had had an actual Iona fide occupation, and had subjected ■the land to his will and control for’ some space of time; that mere .assertion of title, coupled with casual acts of ownership, is not sufficient.. This charge is objected to on the ground that the word occupation is more extensive than the word ■ possession, and conveyed to the jury the idea that the party must himself have lived upon the premises. The -word occupant may be so used in connection with other expressions, or under peculiar facts of a ease as to signify a residence. But ordinarily the expression ‘ occupation,’ ‘ possessio pedis,’ ‘ subjection to the will and control,’ are employed ■as synonymous terms, and Signifying actual possession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Staininger v. Andrews

2. “that lapse of time does not constitute an abandonment”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Southern Pacific Co.