Forbes v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “2. Permission from the owner of land to another to erect and occupy a building upon his premises, altho not given in writing, will make the building, when erected, the property of the builder. But this permission, properly called a license, is revocable at any time; on revocation, the licensee is entitled to the building and may remove it.[ 1 ] [[Image here]] 4. The doctrine that a structure, however costly, if placed upon the land of another by permission, which permission may be recalled at any time, becomes, in the absence of specific agreement, irrevocably attached to the land upon which it is placed, is manifestly opposed to the intention implied in the very transaction. The inference springing out of such a license is that the land used is to be left as found, and the property so placed thereon shall remain the property of the user, and be removable as such.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hill v. Eads