Wolfe v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While the operating tenant may, in case he is called upon to account for profits, set off as against a non-operating tenant the cost of the necessary improvements, he must show that such improvements were necessary and added to and enhanced the value of the common property. A portion of the expenditure for which credit was allowed Zobel was, we have seen, not of this character. What portion it is impossible to determine from the findings of the court; it appearing therefrom that part of the expenditure was for work which resulted in the development of the ore body which was opened at the time intervenors acquired title, and in extracting such ore, which would be a legitimate off-set, and a part was for prospecting and developing other parts of the mine, for which he was entitled to no contribution from the intervenors. It is also well settled that tenants in common are not entitled to compensation from each other for services rendered in the care and management of the common property in the absence of a special agreement or mutual understanding to that effect.” Citing cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wahl v. Larsen