Buck v. Squiers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is, as I understand the law, to prevent the occurrence of just such contingencies as these that, in the leading, best-reasoned, and best-considered cases upon this subject, it is laid down and fully established that courts will always extend the boundaries of land, deeded as extending to and along the sides of highways and fresh-water streams, not navigable, to the middle of such streams and highways, if it can be done without manifest violence to the words used in the conveyance. And to have this rule of the least practical importance to cure the evil, which it is adapted to remedy, it must be applied to every case, where there is not expressed an evident and manifest intention to the contrary — one from which no rational construction can escape.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Texas Bitulithic Co. v. Warwick

2. ““In ninety-nine eases in every hundred the parties, at the time of the conveyance, do not esteem the land covered by the highway of any importance either way; hence they use the words naturally descriptive of the prominent idea in their minds at the time, and in so doing- define the land which it is expected the party will occupy and improve.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gratz v. Land & River Imp. Co.