Dikes v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Easements and incorporeal rights annexed to land, may be lost by abandonment. So may an incipient right to land, as a location and survey, or other merely equitable title, not perfected into a grant, or vested by deed. (4 Kent, Com. 448 [Hatch v. Dwight]; 17 Mass. 297 [ 9 Am. Dec. 145 ]; [Erench v. Braintree Mfg. Co.] 23 Pick. [Mass.] 216; [Phillips v. Shaffer] 5 Serg. & R. [Pa.] 215; 2 Hilliard on Real Property, 3, 12, 13, 79, 98.) Legal rights, when once vested, must be divested according to law, but equitable rights may be abandoned.” Dikes v. Miller, 24 Tex. 417, 424 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mon-Tex Oil Corp. v. Poteet

2. “It would seem, that there is nothing in principle, to prevent the owner from abandoning his right of property in land, provided the intention to do so be evidenced by an act or deed legally sufficient to operate a divestiture of his title.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Co.

3. “Legal rights, when once vested, must be divested according to law, but equitable rights may be abandoned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Myers v. Crenshaw