Shellenberger v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Title to land cannot be acquired by adverse possession unless the possession is open, notorious, hostile,. (and exclusive, and it is also essential that such possession, in order that it may ripen into title, should be shown to be continuous and uninterrupted for the full statutory period. The moment the possession is broken it ceases to be effectual, because as soon as, and as often as, a break occurs the law restores the constructive possession of the owner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garrett v. Dean

2. ““In order to apply 12 O.S.1951 § 93, in bar of an attack upon a void tax deed, it must be shown by the evidence that the holder thereof has recorded his tax deed and has been in possession of the land therein described for five continuous years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garrett v. Dean

3. ““When the land is vacant, the constructive possession is in the valid title holder. * * * »”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Garrett v. Dean