236 So. 2d 430 - Stevens v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 7 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[p]ossession of real estate is constructive notice of the title in the occupant to the same extent as that imputed by the record of a deed to him thereto.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 925 So. 2d 870 - Harrell v. Lamar Co., LLC · 609 So. 2d 422 - Bank of Mississippi v. Hollingsworth

2. “"It is the general rule in this state and elsewhere that when a transfer of property is made to one person and the purchase price is paid by another, a resulting trust arises in favor of the person who pays the purchase price. Ryals v. Douglas, 205 Miss. 695 , 39 So.2d 311 (1949); V Scott, Trusts § 440 (3d Ed. 1967); Restatement (Second) of Trusts § 440 (2d Ed. 1959)... . The burden is upon the transferee to establish that he was to receive the beneficial interest. Scott, supra." 236 So.2d at 432-433 . (Emphasis added).”

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

3. “Any notice sufficient to incite a party to inquiry is equivalent in law to notice of those further relevant facts which such inquiry, if pursued with reasonable diligence, would have disclosed.”

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