Carter v. Stringfellow’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ * * * An essential element of an es-toppel in pais is a false representation, or a concealment of material facts, upon which another has been induced to act to his prejudice. The representation or concealment must, in all ordinary cases, have reference to past or present facts. A mere promise of something to be done in the future is not such a representation or concealment. One’s failure to perform a promise is a very different thing from his denial of a state of facts which he had previously held out as in existence.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 547 So. 2d 404 - Lake Martin/Alabama Power Licensee Ass'n v. Alabama Power Co.

2. “that the [fee] owner of a servient estate may himself use the land upon which an easement has been dedicated so long as such right does not conflict with the purpose and character of the easement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 751 So. 2d 2 - Blalock v. Conzelman

3. “A permanent easement or incumbrance on lands must rest on something more enduring than the memory of witnesses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 507 So. 2d 480 - Sports World, Inc. v. Neil's Sporting Goods, Inc.