412 So. 2d 597 - Bartlett v. Calhoun’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2016
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Vance v. Ellerbe · Brewster v. Hewes · Liquidators of Prudential Savings & Homestead Soc. v. Langermann · Devall v. Choppin · 338 So. 2d 575 - Jackson v. D'AUBIN
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Applying this civilian principle to the present case, it is evidence that Ms. Calhoun's status as a possessor is essential to her claim of acquisitive prescription of ten years. Defendant, as a purchaser, is a successor by particular title. If she was in good faith when she re-acquired the property in 1951, she could cumulate the requisite ten years on her own, or tack her possession to that of her good faith author. On the other hand, if defendant was in bad faith she could not avail herself of Grey Brown's good faith and become owner of the land in question after the passage of ten years. Though she could still tack her possession to that of her author's for thirty year acquisitive prescription, the institution of this suit in 1977 would interrupt her possession and preclude her claim of ownership. See C.C. art. 3518."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sufficient to establish just title may be acquired by legacy. While it is true that a universal legatee does not acquire a new title, such that would permit a new possession, completely distinct from that of his grantor, he does acquire his ancestors' title, such as it is. [10] Universal succession has been described as a mandatory substitution in that the universal successor merely continues the deceased's possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clifton v. Liner“He succeeds to all of the latter's obligations as well as rights. It is thus not a new possession that begins but it is the deceased's possession that is transmitted to his heirs, with its virtues and its faults.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clifton v. Liner
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