Barber v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We have no doubt but that title by adverse possession was established in defendant as to all of the land which Nevill fenced in the spring of 1881, for he then took actual possession in hostility to the true owner, and this has been maintained and asserted ever since by himself and his successors in interest.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barber v. Robinson