Clark v. Hindman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““When a party, under a misapprehension of his legal rights, by word or act, places another party in an attitude of hostility to such rights, he must submit to the loss which his conduct has occasioned: Fahie v. Pressey, 2 Or. 23 ( 80 Am. Dec. 401 ). Hindman, in ignorance of his own title, evidently encouraged plaintiff in expending money to build her house, and, having done so, lie and those claiming under him cannot subsequent thereto assert such title to her injury.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grand Prize Hydraulic Mines v. Boswell

2. ““The authorities establish the doctrine that the owner of land may, by an act in pais, preclude himself from asserting his legal title. But it is obvious that the doctrine should be carefully and sparingly applied, and only on the disclosure of clear and satisfactory grounds of justice and equity.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Urquhart v. Belloni