Bounds v. Little’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 82 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We know of no rule of law which requires one who is about to purchase land to make inquiries of persons living near it. It is the duty of the purchaser to inquire of the party in possession' by what right he holds, and hence the law affects him with notice of the claim of such possessor. But, in the absence of some information that some particular person knows of an adverse claim to the premises in dispute, there is no duty resting upon the purchaser to make inquiries of such person, although he may live in the neighborhood in which the land lies.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Strong v. Strong

2. “Juries are bound to decide according to the actual truth of the facts. * * * It would therefore be absurd and inconsistent to say that a jury was not to be allowed to find according to the real fact, when they are satisfied that an actual conveyance has been executed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Magee v. Paul

3. “The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hutcheson v. Massie