Jones v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 federal appellate · 14 district · 56 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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ The title to the land and policies passed by the deeds; a power only was reserved. That power is not an interest in the property which can be transferred to another, or sold on execution, or. devised! by will. ... Nor is the power a chose in action.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coolidge v. Long · Ryan v. Cullen

2. “In all cases where a husband makes a voluntary settlement of any portion of his property for the benefit of others Avho stand in such a relation to Mm as to create an obligation, legally or morally, to provide for them, as in the case of a wife, or children, or parents, the only question that can properly be asked is, does such a disposition of the property deprive others of any existing claims to it ? If it does not, no one can complain, if the transfer is made matter of public record and be hot designed as a scheme to defraud future creditors. And it cannot make any difference through what channels the property passes to the party to be benefited, or to his or her trustee, whether it be by direct conveyance from the husband, or through the intervention of others.”

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

3. “The right of a husband to settle a portion of his property upon his wife, and thus provide against the vicissitudes of fortune, when this can be done without impairing existing claims of creditors, is indisputable. Its exercise is upheld by the courts as tending not only to the future comfort and support of the wife, but also, through her, to the support and education of any children of the marriage. It arises, as said by Chief Justice Marshall, in 8exton v. Wheaton, 8 Wheat. 229 , as a consequence of that absolute power which a man possesses over his own property, by which he can .make any disposition of it which does not interfere with'.the existing rights of others.”

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