Williams v. Bernstein’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

64 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(An action of boundary, pure and simple is not open to a plea of prescription (C. C. 825). The action may be repelled by showing that the boundary line between the_ two properties has been settled by judicial decree or by a survey made by a surveyor in conformity with the requirements of the Civil Code. “A line, however, even when established between the parties by such a survey yelds to a demand for the ratification of the same under an allegation of error unless the party resisting the ratification should allege and show an' adverse possession of ten years under the erroneous line.””

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

2. ““Neighbors constantly run up fences within or beyond the boundary lines and join their fences, doing so with the knowledge and understanding that such acts are merely temporary and done subsidiarily to and with reference to the right of both to ultimately ascertain and fix rights by an •action Of boundary or through a formal .legal survey.””

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