Cook v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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. “that the purchaser in possession could protect himself, by proper proof, under the Statute of Limitations, if more than seven years • had elapsed from the time, when the prior, purchaser had received or might have- received his deed ? ■. . . The defendant has never acknowledged a lessor, nor any- title paramount to his own. It is true the Statute of Limitations did not begin to run in his favor until the expiration of fifteen months from the -sheriff’s sale; because until then there was no outstanding title upon which suit could be brought. But upon that day the. purchaser at the sale was at liberty to take out his deed, clothe himself with the legal title, and demand possession; and from that day the statute began to run.”

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

2. “although the sheriff’s deed made on that day would have divested the legal title from Clark and vested it in the purchaser, that fact would not have converted Clark into a tenant. From that moment he became a trespasser, and might have been sued as such.”

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