Medlock v. Suter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““Whether the possession be considered as held under a contract of sale that was void, and consequently without color of title,' or under an executory contract, and therefore, in legal contemplation, the possession of Mrs. Medlock and those claiming under her, we are of the opinion that, if in fact the widow and children of Tinsley M. Snelson entered under the purchase made by him, and held the actual open possession of the land, using and claiming it for and as the land of his children and heirs at law, such possession was adverse, and the right to bring an action for the recovery of it thereupon accrued to Elizabeth Medlock.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dotson v. Dotson

2. ““The period within which an action for the recovery of real property may be brought shall not, in any case, be extended beyond thirty years from the time at which the right to bring the action first accrued to the plaintiff, or the person through whom he claims by reason of any death or the existence or continuance of any disability whatever. ’ ’ Ky. Statutes, 2508.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Begley v. Allen