Hoag v. Pierce’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. ““If the possession of the plaintiff was not actual and of sufficiently long standing to become to a legal intent peaceable, then he was not in a condition to maintain his action.” In Treat v. Stuart, 5 Cal. 113 , the court said: “The plaintiff in an action of forcible entry and unlawful detainer must show an actual, peaceable possession in himself at the time of the entry”; and in House v. Keiser, 8 Cal. 500 , which was an action brought under the act concerning forcible entries and unlawful detainers, the court said that “a party who desires to avail himself of the summary remedy provided by this act must bring himself clearly within its provisions. He must show a possession, actual, peaceable, and exclusive; a mere scrambling or interrupted possession, or the exercise of casual acts of ownership over the premises, is not sufficient.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Castro v. Tewksbury