Cowherd v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] conveyance of lands held adversely by a third person is champertous, it is void as to the person in possession and his privies, even though the conveyance is made in good faith and for a valuable consideration. As against the person in adverse possession, no right or title is passed or transmitted from the grantor to the grantee by the deed; title re mains in the grantor, and may be subsequently purchased from him by the adverse possessor during the pendency of a suit against such possessor by the grantor for the benefit of the champer-tous grantee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McAlpin v. Bailey

2. “actual possession; open and notorious possession; exclusive possession; [and] hostile possession[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coblentz v. Day