O'Mary v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1994
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“The well settled rule is that the action of commissioners in partition will not be set aside on the ground of unequal allotments except in extreme cases, as where the partition appears to have been made upon wrong principles, or where it is shown by very clear and decided preponderance of evidence that the partition is grossly unequal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vanhook v. Vanhook
How this case has been treated — in progress
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