Budd v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In all eases where a parly is in possession of land in privity with the rightful owner, nothing short, of an open and explicit disavowal and disclaimer of a holding under that title, and assertion of title in himself, brought home to the owner, will satisfy the law. When a fiduciary relation exists between the possessor and the owner, a chair, positive, and continued disclaimer and disavowal of the tille, and assertion of an adverse right, to be brought home to the parly, are indispensable before any foundation can be laid for the operation of the statute of limitations. Otherwise, the grossest injustice might be practiced; for without such notice the owner of the land might well rely upon the fiduciary relations raider which the possession was originally taken and held, and upon the subordinate character of the possession as the legal result of! those relations.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rigney v. De Graw