2 Conn. App. 246 - Lazoff v. Padgett’s Empirical Analysis

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37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The possession of one who recognizes or admits title in another, either by declaration or conduct, is not adverse to the title of such other. . . . Occupation must not only be hostile in its inception, but it must continue hostile, and at all times during the required period of fifteen years challenge the right of the true owner, in order to found title by adverse use upon it. . . . Such an acknowledgment of the owner's title terminates the running of the statutory period, and any subsequent adverse use starts the clock anew.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. Johnson, No. Cv 0083610s (Mar. 12, 2002)

2. “The essential elements of adverse possession are that the owner shall be ousted from possession and kept out uninterruptedly for fifteen years under a claim of right by an open, visible and exclusive possession of the claimant without license or consent of the owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 1642 - River Investment v. Barbiorz, No. Cv01 0066750-S (Feb. 8, 2002)

3. “`possession of one who recognizes or admits title in another, either by declaration or conduct, is not adverse to the title-of such other'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 10953 - Adametz v. Adametz, No. Cv 98 008 64 69 (Aug. 27, 2002)