Seay v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 51 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is argued strenuously in behalf of appellant that because these provisions are found in a will and not in a deed they must receive a more liberal construction than if they were found in an instrument of the latter character. It is possible this rule may be correct, yet, under the provision which brings it so clearly within the rule in question, we fail to see that there is any room for construction in applying the rule in Shelley’s Case as commonly laid down; and, unless the will shows very clearly that the rule ought not to apply, it must be followed. We do not know how to argue what appears to us so plain a proposition.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crist v. Morgan

2. ““The prohibition against the devisees selling the property is void. It is clearly a restraint upon alienation.... ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gray v. Vandver