Reams v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 1973
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pillow v. Southwest Virginia Improvement Co. · Hammond v. Shepard · Wimer v. Wimer · Schick v. Whitcomb · Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Postal Telegraph Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the plaintiff in ejectment must prevail, if at all, upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary's.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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