Brann v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1961
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Ewing v. Nesbitt · Gardner v. Anderson · Woodley v. Howse · Allen v. Pedder
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testator did, in part, select a fixed line of inheritable succession limited to the' issue of the body of his devisee, but by express inclusion, he then provided that the heirs and assigns of the devisee were to take, and thus the regular and general succession of the statutory heirs at law was not cut off. Under the terms of the devise, the line of inheritable succession in the selected line could not continue so long as posterity endures in the regular course of descent, for the testator has provided otherwise, and for that reason no estate tail in the first taker was created. The result is that the devisees named as taking life estates took life estates and no more, the remainders going to the issue and the heirs and assigns of such issue of the respectively named devisees of the life estates.” (p. 752.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the grantor has selected a line of inheritable succession for his property it must continue so long as posterity endures in a regular order and course of descent. He may, of course, provide for the disposition of the property on an indefinite failure of issue, but if this is attempted on a definite failure, such as at the time of the death of the devisee named or other fixed time, the estate tail fails.” (p. 642.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jonas v. Jones““I hereby give and devise unto my son, ... a life estate only in . . . ; after the death of my said son ... I give and devise unto the lawfully begotten issue of my said son . . . then living all of the said real estate to take share and share alike, and to their heirs and assigns forever," etc. (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jonas v. Jones
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.