Gill v. Marquoit’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. “"* * * [sellers], in the absence of something to suggest otherwise, were entitled to assume that [purchasers] would, along with other inquiries usually made by those purchasing land, find out whether the adjacent river overran its banks. It is a matter of common knowledge that many rivers in Oregon frequently rise above their banks during the rainy season. The occurrence is so common that ordinarily a seller may assume that the purchaser knows, or if he does not know, he will find out whether the action of a neighboring river will affect the land being purchased."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beri, Inc. v. Salishan Properties, Inc.