Velasquez v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘ “Without any reference to the doctrine of title by adverse possession, the fact that a party owning a tract of land has for many years occupied and claimed up to a particular line as the true boundary, and the owner of the adjoining tract has silently acquiesced therein, is a circumstance strongly tending to show the correct- ' ness of the claim; and in the absence ' of other controlling circumstances the line so indicated should be taken as the true division between the respective premises.” ’ ****** “In Magoon v. Davis, 84 Me. 178 , 24 A. 809, 810 , the court said: ‘The occupation and possession of the owners of lots by dividing fences erected soon after the establishment of the lines, when the location of the line may generally be better ascertained and understood than it can possibly be years afterwards, is entitled to great weight in determining the question. And, in cases of doubt, we think the fact of the mutual occupation of the parties, the mutual recognition of the line as indicated by their occupation and dividing fences, should prevail over the uncertainty which arises in any attempt; by the running of lines so many years after the original survey, to establish the true line between the parties.’ ******”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Woodburn v. Grimes