Gore v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 30 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * where there is privity of estate between the successive parties in possession, the possession of such parties may be tacked so as to make the twenty years required by the Statute of Limitations. The law is clear that such privity may be created by a sale and conveyance and possession under it as well as by-descent.””

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 182 Md. App. 300 - Senez v. Collins · 43 Md. App. 348 - Bratton v. Hitchens

2. ““In order to establish title to land by adverse possession under the Statute of 21 James I, ch. 16, which is in force in Maryland, the claimant must show that such possession was actual, notorious, exclusive, hostile, under claim of title or ownership, and continuous or uninterrupted for the period of twenty years. 2 Alexander’s British Statutes, Coe’s Ed., 599-616; Peper v. Traeger, 152Md. 174, 181, 136 A. 537 ; Tamburo v. Miller, 203 Md. 329 , 100 A. 2d 818 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 28 Md. App. 379 - Rosencrantz v. Shields, Inc.