Gage v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under tbe old chancery practice, to maintain a bill to remove a cloud from a title it was essential that the complainant should be in, and the party against whom the bill was filed out of, possession. * * * But this is changed by the act of 1809, which allows such a bill to be filed ‘whether the lands in controversy are improved or occupied, or unimproved or unoccupied.’ Since that enactment we have held that there are only two cases under our law in which a party may file a bill to quiet title or to remove a cloud from the title to real property: First, where he is in possession of the lands; and, second, where he claims to be the owner, and the lands in controversy are unimproved and unoccupied. ⅜ * * In cases, therefore, where the lands are improved, and occupied by the adverse party, this remedy does not apply. In such a case the remedy would be by ejectment.””

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