Laabs v. Bolger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The other features of possession by the instant defendants present a stronger case for establishing adverse possession in the statutory sense than in the Burk-hardt Case. Here, commencing in 1941, not only was fertilizer applied and grass seed sown, but the lawn was mowed to a definite line, the C-D line. Furthermore, the trees planted by defendants were placed on this line.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 57 Wis. 2d 148 - Madsen v. Holmes

2. ““893.09 Adverse possession, what is. For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession by a person claiming title, . . . land shall be deemed to have been possessed and occupied in the following cases only: “(1) When it has been protected by a substantial inclosure. “ (2) When it has been usually cultivated or improved.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 57 Wis. 2d 148 - Madsen v. Holmes