Laurel County v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* ‘ Those cases declare that where plaintiff _ seeks damages for injuries to realty and asserts title in himself, and defendant merely denies it, but does not claim or assert title in himself (but controverts the damages only), then neither the title nor any •easement right is involved so as to give this court .jurisdiction under the provisions of the statutes, supra. But where plaintiff in such actions asserts title or right in himself which is denied by defendant, accompanied with an affirmative averment that defendant owns the land or right in question, then the title or the claimed easement is involved so as to be comprehended by the section of the statute, and in which case this court would have jurisdiction of an appeal by the unsuccessful party from any judgment rendered in the cause.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co. v. Harmon