Talbot v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If, by mistake, Watson or Beal built a fence which either supposed to be on the south line of his land, he is not thereby precluded from now claiming land outside of the fence in the absence of adverse occupancy thereof by plaintiff for ten years under a claim of title.””

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