Beard v. Dansby’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 26 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But the constructive notice of an adverse title, which the law implies from the registry of a deed, is not sufficient to preclude the occupant from recovering for improvements, if he, in fact, purchased in good faith and under, the .supposition that he was obtaining a good title in fee. Actual notice is the test — that is, either knowledge of an outstanding paramount title, or of some circumstance from which the court or jury may .fairly infer that he had cause to suspect the invalidity of his own title. _ Now, the mere fact that the defect in the title would have been disclosed upon an examination of the public records does not bring such knowledge home to him; for it is not.inconsistent with his ignorance of the existence of such a deed, nor with an honest belief that his title is uncontested. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holub v. Titus

2. ““The only requirements of the act are, that the occupant should have had peaceable possession, at the time the improvements were made, under color of title and under the belief that he was the owner of the land. Any instrument having a grantor and grantee, and containing a description of the lands intended to be conveyed, and apt words for their conveyance, gives color of title.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Holub v. Titus