Simon v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Section 3, Title 47, Code of Alabama 1940, relating to suits to determine boundary lines between adjoining landowners provides among other things: `The court shall determine any adverse claims in respect to any portion of the land involved which it may be necessary to determine for a complete settlement of the boundary lines * *.' "In his answer the respondent denied the averment in the bill that the north line of complainant's property as described in the complaint was the true boundary line. "This general denial put in issue the true location of the north boundary line, Rushton v. McLaughlin , 213 Ala. 380 , 104 So. 824 , which the complainant Simon had himself prayed the court to establish. "Since under the doctrine of our cases a defendant in an action at law may defend on adverse possession or prescription under a plea of the general issue, we know of no rule requiring a respondent in a suit in equity to plead the defense of limitations to enable him to establish such defense. See Keppel v. Dreier , 187 Ill. 298 , 58 N.E. 386 ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 368 So. 2d 22 - Hingle v. Gann