Mueller v. Larison’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The judgment in this case is an unqualified adjudication, in definite and certain terms, that plaintiffs ‘have an easement’ over defendants’ property ‘which easement will continue in perpetuity and inure to the benefit of plaintiffs’ administrators, successors and assigns’. An easement is an ‘interest’ in land and involves the title. See Dalton v. Johnson,, Mo.App., 319 S.W.2d 66 , and cases cited. Therefore, the judgment operates directly against defendants’ real estate and affects their record title, since it divests them of an interest in their property and, in formal terms, decrees in plaintiffs a quantum of ownership. We take this view under the established ‘test of whether or not title to real estate is directly involved’, as exemplified and quoted in State ex rel. Brown v. Hughes et al., 345 Mo. 958 , 137 S.W.2d 544, 545 , as follows: ‘ “The judgment sought or rendered must be such as will directly determine title in some measure or degree adversely to one litigant and in favor of another; or, as some of the cases say, must take title from one litigant and give it to another”.’ ” (1. c. 449 of 347 S.W.2d)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pendleton v. Gundaker