Cole v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But although a party may be in doubt where the line runs between his and another’s land, still, if he inclose to a certain line, claiming it to be the true one, and that the land to that line is his, his possession is adverse. ... He says he intended to claim only to the government line, but claimed to the middle of the road as the government line. He set up no claim to land north of the north line of the southwest quarter, but did claim that the middle of the road was that line and that the land to that line was his. It may have been a mistake it is true, but honest men always inclose land not their own by mistake or with the consent of the owner, and if the law on this subject were not as this court has held, the Statute of Limitations in such cases would never run in favor of an honest man, because he would never avow his purpose to have been to take the land of another.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pioneer Cooperage Co. v. Dillard