Findlay v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Such intention will be indicated, not by what the surveyor intended to do and thought he had done, but by what, in fact, he did do. In other words, where did he actually locate the lines and corners' of the survey made by him ? And not simply where did he intend to locate the same with reference 'to some other survey ? This is to be done by ascertaining as best we can, which of the contradictory calls was inserted by mistake, and by rejecting such mistaken call.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynn v. Manning

2. ““Whether or not it ought to be presumed that a surveyor ran out an unmarked prairie line called for in his field notes, and thus ascertained its location upon the ground will depend upon the proximity of marked corners or lines from which such line could have been run. If they were near by and could have ■ been ascertained with certainty, it is reasonable to presume that he ran out such prairie line.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Anderson v. Schaefer