Adkins v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In cases like this there frequently exists an aura of hostility and awkwardness not necessarily common to co-tenancy of lands or other properties held for commercial purposes. While neither of the parties contended that he or she was ousted from possession, it is unrealistic to believe that parties who could not get along living together while they were married would be expected to enjoy common usage of the former marital home after their divorce.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 472 So. 2d 1325 - Vandergrift v. Buckley · Barrow v. Barrow

2. “Where a wife, as cotenant, is granted exclusive possession of the marital residence via a divorce decree and later seeks partition of it, can the husband, as an excluded cotenant, recover or setoff the reasonable rental value of the property during the period of his exclusion, where the wife, as tenant in possession, seeks to recover advances made for mortgage, insurance and tax payments and repairs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 388 So. 2d 1355 - Wood v. Friedman