Fischer v. Dent’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ There can be no doubt as to the intention of both parties to the sale and transfer of the land in question from Mrs. Fischer to Hobson and Seay. Whatever might have been their idea as to the proper description to be employed to express it, there is no question as to the thing which was the subject of the transaction. They purchased the little store and the ground on which it was situated, the width of which was as perfectly marked by the width of the warehouse on Third street as by the width of the store on Fourth street. They took possession of that property, never suspecting that they were not then in possession of everything they had purchased. A tenant was in possession of the opera house building and no complaint was made by the purchasers of this property that he was not within his right in the occupation of every square foot of that building. The unquestioned possession of the respective parties measured the claim of each, and was for that reason evidence of their intention in the transaction which was the origin of that claim.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Washington State Realty Co. v. Saad