Coats v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"From the pleadings and admitted evidence the possession of Coats alone appears to he of three years duration immediately prior to the suit. But clearly if plaintiff through Mrs. Coats can prove the type of possession prescribed by the above mentioned Codal articles, and that this possession can be by legal contemplation tacked on to the possession of Coats, plaintiff may establish the required possession of thirty years and successfully claim the benefits of Articles 3475 and 3499 of the LSA-Civil Code. Article 3495 of the LSA-Civil Code requires that in order to enjoy the advantages of tacking on the separate possessions, they must have succeeded each other without interval or interruption. In Buckley v. Catlett, 1943, 203 La. 54 , 13 So.2d 384, 386 , the court in discussing the tacking on of possession, had this to say: “ ‘On this sub j ect, it is well established in our jurisprudence that, for the purpose of claiming land under the prescription of 30 years, several successive possessors cannot be joined to show a continuous adverse possession, unless there is a privity of estate or contract between the occupants. The reason for this rule is that the several acts of adverse possession are construed as nothing more than a series of independent trespasses, and on the termination of each of those acts the possession returns by operation of law to the rightful owner of the immovable. Sibley v. Pierson, 125 La. 478 , 51 So. 502 ; Harang v. Golden Ranch Land & Drainage Company, ”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richey v. Hill · Stutson v. McGee