Powers v. Minor’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The descriptive language in the deed was in all its parts applicable to the headright survey. There was no conflict in any part of its terms, and none could arise in applying that description to that tract. The difference between ‘headright’ and ‘bounty’ surveys is well understood in this state, and the language, ‘the headright of John H. Walker,’ was a definite and distinct designation of a survey made for Walker by virtue of his headright certificate. There was a headright grant patented to John H. Walker of 1,280 acres, at the place designated, and while there may have been a mistake, there is no uncertainty. The grant of a headright would not Convey a bounty survey, and the court rightly instructed the jury that plaintiff acquired no title to the land in controversy under that deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scheller v. Groesbeck

2. ““The undivided half of 1,280 aeres of land situated in the southeast part of Palls county, on the waters of Big creek, being the headright of John H. Walker, and reference being hereby made to the patent of said Walker for the boundaries and a more particular description of said tract of land.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scheller v. Groesbeck