Sutter v. San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The, complaint shows no right to have the particular piece partitioned. Plaintiff’s interest, as alleged, is in the entire tract, and not in that which remains unsold. The sale by defendant of portions of the tract could not pass his interest. He, as tenant in common, still has an undivided interest in the entire tract, and, if a partition is to be made,, it must be made as to the whole. It would be necessary to consider the whole in making.a partition, in order to determine the relative value of different parts. Different portions might be of greatly unequal value, and a tenant, who has an interest equal to the ratio of one hundred varas to the whole, would not be entitled to have the most valuable one hundred varas in the tract set off to him. The rights of the parties .cannot be ultimately and finally determined without an examination and settlement of the rights of the parties as to the whole tract, and, to do this it.would be necessary to make the grantees of the defendant parties.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 214 Cal. App. 2d 322 - Thomas v. Witte