Newland v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 49 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““So will acts of the legislature having elements of limitation, and capable of being so applied and administered, although the words are broad enough to and do, literally read, strike at the right itself, be construed to limit and control the remedy; for as such they are valid, but as weapons destructive of vested, rights they are void, and such force only will be given the acts as the legislature could impart to them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fullerton v. Lamm

2. “It [the statute] does not commence running only from possession taken of the land, but from the time of the concurrence of the two things — the color of title and payment of taxes — and has performed its office, when the color of title and payment of taxes have gone together for the period of limitation; and it is the same to the party availing himself of the bar whether he is sued whilst in or out of possession.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell