Hedley v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the express policy of the State to' encourage the improvement of swamp lands by such licensees, and it is a perversion of that policy to encourage interlopers to enjoy the fruit of other men’s labors. It never was designed that any one should be ousted unless he has manifestly failed to perform his obligations, and determined to abandon his holding.” .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wait v. Commissioner of the State Land-Office