Stephenson v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate ·

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. ““I was later informed, in about the middle of 1952 to the best of my recollection, by Mr. Costigan that, contrary to his firm’s expectation, the children of Grant T. Stephenson were claiming shares in the remainder interest and that it was probably going to be necessary to determine the ownership through a lawsuit.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stephenson v. Stephenson · Valerie Schramm Stephenson v. Grant T. Stephenson, Jr., and Howard E. Stephenson

2. ““the only way to ascertain whether or not the children would press such claims as they thought they had would be to demand a disclaimer from them and in the event of their refusal to give us a disclaimer, to sue them for the purpose of removing any cloud on Valerie Stephenson’s title.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stephenson v. Stephenson · Valerie Schramm Stephenson v. Grant T. Stephenson, Jr., and Howard E. Stephenson

3. ““had become clear that we should have to engage in litigation with Irene Stephenson’s children to clear up the title to Valerie Stephenson’s remainder interest before going further with our endeavors to liquidate Irene Stephenson’s interest.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Stephenson v. Stephenson · Valerie Schramm Stephenson v. Grant T. Stephenson, Jr., and Howard E. Stephenson