Mellen v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The said heirs are entitled to have and retain a certain portion of said Oliver J. Morgan’s estate free from the claims of his creditors, as follows, to wit: two fifths of the four plantations, Albion, Wilton, Westland and Morgana, are directed and decreed to be reserved for the benefit to the heirs of Julia Morgan, deceased; and one half of Melbourne plantation is directed and decreed to be reserved for. the benefit of the heirs of Oliver II. Kellam, Jr., deceased; and that the remaining interest in the said plantations is decreed and adjudged to be subject to the payment and satisfaction of the debts due to the administrator of said William Gay,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grant v. Buckner

2. “but if the heirs shall not desire a severance of their portions, then the whole property to be sold, and they to receive their respective portions of the proceeds, but no allowance for buildings. Any moneys in the hands of the receiver, after paying his expenses and compensation, are to be divided between the creditors and heirs in the proportions above stated, applying the amount due to the heirs, so far as may be requisite, to the costs pa}7able by them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grant v. Buckner