McCann v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““First. Is two years’ adverse possession of a tract of land held by a donee, first under a certificate of donation, and then under a donation deed by the State, sufficient to bar an action against him, when the possession under the deed has not continued two years, and it is necessary to add it to that held under the certificate to make the two years’ adverse possession? “Second. Is a donee, holding land under a donation deed executed to him by the State, entitled, in an action against him by the owner for the possession of the same, to recover the value of the improvements made by him on the land after a certificate of donation was issued to him, and before the deed was executed, when the land was sold or forfeited to the State after the taxes for. which it was sold or forfeited had been previously and in due time paid, and the owner recovers a judgment against him, in such action, for the possession of the same? ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Fowler