Meyer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A testator devised certain real estate to his granddaughter to be held for her sole use during her natural life and then to go in fee simple to the issue of her body living at ihe time of her death, and if she died leaving no living issue of her body, then to go in fee simple to such half brothers and half sisters as may be living at the time of her death, but if she died leaving no half brothers or half sisters, the property should go to the children of the testator. The granddaughter claimed that the will gave her an estate tail' in the property. Held, that as the limitation over is upon a definite failure of issue, that is, upon the death of the granddaughter, an estate tail was not created.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Coleman v. Shoemaker

2. ““I give, bequeath and devise to my beloved son, Henry Meyer, a life estate in and to the following-described real estate (description) and at the death of my son, Henry Meyer, I give, bequeath and devise the aforesaid described real estate in fee simple to the heirs of his body.””

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