Barrell v. Title Guarantee Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It must be admitted by every one that the recovery operates as an estoppel to this extent: To preclude the losing party from denying that, as to him, the prevailing party was, at the time of the rendition of the judgment, entitled to the possession.- It would seem necessarily to follow that, in order to avoid the estoppel, the losing party must show some other right of possession than that which he had when the estoppel was created. He is bound to show such other right, because his former claim of right was determined by the recovery.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lynch v. Collings

2. ““We have been cited to but one authority which holds that a mere judgment in ejectment will stop the running of the statute of limitations: Brolaskey v. McClain, 61 Pa. St. 166; so that upon authority we cannot say that the Tilton judgment alone is sufficient to break the continuity of the adverse possession of •plaintiff. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bessler v. Powder River Gold Dredging Co.

3. ““We cannot see how the mere recovery of a judgment in an action of ejectment can suspend the running of the statute of limitations. To have that effect there must be possession under it, or something done to make the defendant’s possession subordinate to the plaintiff’s title.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bessler v. Powder River Gold Dredging Co.