Cribben v. Cribben’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Manifestly that rule can give no support to the proposition here laid down, because, waiving all controversy as to whether the bequest in question is precisely the same estate Richard Cribben would have taken in his deceased wife’s estate if she had died intestate, it is an admitted fact that she did dispose of-her estate, both real and personal, by will, and therefore the statute of descents has no application, and hence her husband could take nothing by descent except by renouncing the will, as provided in sections 10 and IF of the dower act, and in that way onlv, could he take one-third of the personal estate of his deceased wife. She could dispose of her estate as she pleased. (Statute of Wills, Sec. 1.) He could only defeat her will by successfully contesting it, or by renouncing its provisions in his favor, and thereby preserve his right to dower in her real estate, and to one-third of her personal estate after the payment of her debts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Laurence v. Balch