Brown v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No person shall use the privilege of filing notices hereunder for the purpose of slandering the title to land and in any action brought for the purpose of quieting title to land, if the court shall find that any person has filed a claim for the purpose only of slandering title to such land, he shall award the plaintiff all of the costs of such action, including attorney fees to be fixed and allowed to the plaintiff by the court, and all damages that plaintiff may have sustained as the result of such notice of claim having been filed for record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 924 F. Supp. 2d 1074 - Biegler v. Kraft

2. “[T]he publication was false and that the publication “(1) was derogatory to the title to [the] property, its quality, or [the property owner’s] business in general, calculated to prevent others from dealing with [the property owner] or to interfere with [the property owner’s] relations "with others to [the property owner’s] disadvantage (often stated as malice); (2) was communicated to a third party; (3) materially or substantially induced others not to deal with [the property owner]; (4) resulted in special damage.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 924 F. Supp. 2d 1074 - Biegler v. Kraft