Raper v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The very gist of the claim by adverse possession is that for [ten] years the claimant has occupied the land so openly, visibly, adversely, notoriously, and continuously that the owner is presumed to have known it. It would be a strange principle then, which would allow a man to go on the land, set up adverse possession, and then leave it, and claim that his possession remained adverse, merely because he intended to return.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 415 So. 2d 1054 - Rohrer v. Allen