Hall v. Gradwohl’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “It is stated in the motion `that the failure of the Court in this case to notice the decision of Cook v. Councilman [, 109 Md. 622 , 72 A. 404 (1909)], above quoted, has [inconsistencies] in two related cases....' We will merely say that the two cases were not identical, as asserted by the appellees; that the case of Cook v. Councilman, supra , was not overruled, nor was it intended to be overruled, and that nothing has been said in the opinion in this case in conflict with the familiar rule announced in that case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moore v. State

2. ““When a person takes an estate of freehold, legally or equitably, under a deed, will, or other writing, and in the same instrument there is a limitation by way of remainder, either with or without the interposition of another estate, of an interest of the same legal or equitable quality, to his heirs or heirs of his body, as a class of persons, to take in succession, from generation to generation, the limitation to the heirs entitles the ancestor to the whole estate. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blair v. Kenaston

3. “legal heirs,' which are superadded to the word 'children,' the arbitrary meaning placed upon them 'by an artificial rule of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Frederick Vogt v. Charles Graff C S