Limbaugh v. Comer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A decree establishing the location of a boundary line between the lands of coterminous owners must be reasonably certain within itself or by reference to the pleadings, evidence or documents filed in the cause, and the decree must be so certain that the line may be located and marked by an officer of the court who may be appointed to so mark the line without reference to extrinsic evidence or the use of his own discretion or by drawing his own conclusions as to any fact determinant of the true location of the line.””

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Foshee v. Mims · Posey v. Cumens

2. “[t]he judgment shall locate and define the boundary lines involved by reference to well-known permanent landmarks.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Posey v. Cumens · 457 So. 2d 365 - Tidwell v. Strickler

3. ““ . . . Appellant’s brief does not contain a concise statement of the record including a condensed recital of the evidence in narrative form so as to-present the substance clearly and concisely as required by Supreme Court Rule 10, Title 7, Appendix, Code 1940.. Consequently, we do not here recite the facts which we feel sustain the contention of the appellee that the evidence is. sufficient to support the trial court’s finding. Case v. O’Shields, 30 Ala.App. 254 , 4 So.2d 202 ; Lamar Life Ins. Co. v. Kemp, 30 Ala.App. 138 , 1 So.2d 760 .” Limbaugh v. Comer, 265 Ala. 202, 205 , 90 So.2d 246, 248 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Case v. Ward