Pool v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““By the Act of March 10, 1869, supra, the whole previous system of the State in regard to these lands was changed, by general law applicable to every county in the State by which a complete title was to be vested in each county by a patent to be issued for the swamp land therein situate, and thenceforth the State delegated to each county the execution of its trust as to the land situate in each county under the general law as expressed in this act and the Act of 1868, supra, which in the main has since remained the general law of the land governing the sale and transfer of title to the purchaser of swamp lands. . . . and thereafter the swamp lands in said county were subject to sale and conveyance by the county under the provisions of the general law expressed in those acts. . . . The county court had power to sell the land therein described at private sale to such purchaser as it might deem advisable at a price less them $1.25 per acre upon the terms upon which sale was made.” And as confirmatory of his construction of the Act of 1869, the learned judge cites Linville v. Bohanan, 60 Mo. 554 , and says further, “The limitation of section 3 of the Act of 1868 as to price applies to public sales of swamp lands, and this limitation had expired by lapse of time before this sale was made.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Simpson v. Stoddard County