Norman v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Q. At the time you measured the land you intended to possess only the land that you had title to? A. Yes. Q. In building the fence you were not intended to acquire title to property that you didn’t own? A. No. I was fencing what I believed I owned. Q. At the time you constructed the fence you did not intend to claim property for which you had no deed? A. That’s right. [[Image here]] Q. You didn’t expect to have more acreage in actuality than your deed represented that you had? A. Oh no.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Underwood v. Hash

2. “The rule is that while one’s occupancy of an adjoining proprietor’s land under a mistake as to the boundary fine, and without any intention of claiming beyond the true boundary line, when ascertained, is not adverse possession, yet if he takes and holds possession up to a given point, and claims to be the owner to such point, his possession is adverse, notwithstanding his belief that such point is the true boundary line, when in fact it is not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Underwood v. Hash

3. “The sufficiency of the claim by one in possession is not to be measured by the morality of that claim or the legal efficacy of an instrument under which the claim is made. Nonetheless, it must be an intent to claim to possess the land as the owner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Underwood v. Hash