Landers v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The principle, as stated in all of our prior decisions, may be reduced to this: If the possessor occupies the land in question intending to occupy that particular piece as his own, his occupancy is adverse. It is not necessary that he intend to take away from the true owner something which he knows belongs to another, or even that he be indifferent as to the facts of the legal title. It is the intent to possess, and not the intent to take irrespective of his right, which governs.’ ” [ 205 S.W.2d at 546 ] This court in that case also said: “Even if the fence was not on the true line and that fact was unknown to the owners of the west eighty, nevertheless a hostile claim could be made by one who believed himself to be the owner of the land which he was claiming.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patterson v. Wilmont · Lancaster v. Neff

2. “actual, notorious and continuous possession of the premises and under an unequivocal claim of ownership for the statutory period”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Patterson v. Wilmont