Chaplin v. Chaplin’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““His real purpose, as we gather it from the entire document, appears to have been to keep the property himself unless the grantee should survive him. His expression was, that ‘the deed should be void if the grantee should die first;’ that is, not merely that the deed should not be effective to transfer the right of possession until the grantor’s death, but that nothing whatever should pass under it unless the grantee should survive him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Young v. O'Donnell