Watts v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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

1. ““I give and devise and bequeath to A. L. L. Hamilton and J. B. McKay of El Dorado, Kansas, in trust for said Corwin Grant Watts, thetundivided one-half interest in and to the following described real estate situated in Butler county, Kansas, towit: The south half of the southeast quarter of section thirteen, township twenty-six south, of range four east, including an undivided one-half interest in and to all óil and gas royalties, rents and other incomes accruing therefrom after my death, and I hereby give and grant said A. L. L. Hamilton and J. B. McKay, or the survivor of them, full power to hold, manage, control, sell, transfer and convey the same, to reinvest the principal and the income therefrom from time to time, and to do every act and thing necessary and proper to effectuate the trust herein created, and to carry out the directions of this will, and I hereby direct such trustees to pay said Corwin Grant Watts, at such times as to them may seem necessary, such sums of money as shall in their judgment be necessary for the proper maintenance, support and education of said Corwin Grant Watts. After said Corwin Grant Watts arrives'at the age of twenty-one years, such trustees are authorized and directed to turn over to said Corwin Grant Watts all of such property then remaining in their hands, when, in the judgment and discretion, said Corwin Gant Watts has attained sufficient business judgment, and, otherwise shows himself to be capable of handling such property, but-sai”

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