Sample v. Romine’s Empirical Analysis

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11 federal appellate · 81 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]here must be a joint proprietary interest and right of mutual control.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Freeland v. Henderson · Bryan v. Bryan

2. “[L]aches, in a legal sense, is not merely delay, but delay that results in injustice or disadvantage to another. Time is only one element. There must be some other element than mere passage of time, some element of estoppel or change in conditions or relations of the parties, or intervention of rights of third persons, so that it would be inequitable to permit the party to then assert his rights. There is no absolute rule as to what constitutes laches or staleness of demand. Each case must be determined under its own peculiar circumstances. Too, the question of laches is largely addressed to the sound discretion of the Chancellor, and his decision will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is clearly wrong and amounts to an abuse of discretion.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Continental Oil Company v. Walker · 431 So. 2d 1119 - Morgan v. Morgan

3. “In such cases, although the title to the property is permitted to be taken in the names of some of the co-adventurers, the rights of the others are not impaired thereby, and the one holding the title becomes in equity a trustee for all. The trust thus imposed follows the property until it passes into the hands of innocent bona fide purchasers. 193 Miss. at 729 , 8 So.2d at 262 .”

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