Bacot v. Fessenden’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Tf the encumbrance be of a kind which the vendor cannot remove, 'such as an easement, it is not to be presumed that- the purchaser, knowing the existence of the easement, intended the insertion of a vain provision in the contract.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seligman v. Maund