Simpson v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * the statute can have no application where the original boundaries are known or can be ascertained. Before it can be invoked it must appear that a corner is not merely obliterated, but lost; that is, that its locus cannot be determined either from the plat and field notes of the original survey, or by any competent extrinsic evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Opperman v. LaBrot