Reilly v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon the death of my wife, Mary E. Rahe, 1 direct that the whole corpus of my estate, including the dwelling and furniture devised to my wife for life, shall be divided into eight equal parts, and one of said parts shall be paid over by said trustee to each of my said eight children should they be then living excepting to the share of my said son, John Gerhardt Rahe, which shall bo held by the said trustee and invested and reinvested, and the net income only paid to my said son, in quarterly installments, until he shall reach the age of forty (40) years, when the trust as to his share shall cease, and his portion of the corpus shall be paid over to him absolutely. But my said son shall have no power to anticipate said income, nor to assign it, and his receipt only shall be sufficient acquittance to said trustee. “Should any of my said children die before my said wife, or should my said son John Gerhardt Rahe, die before reaching forty years of age, leaving a child or children living, then the share in the said corpus of the child so dying, shall vest in the said child or children so left, to be paid over to them upon the death of my said wife. But should any of my said children die without leaving a child or children living at his or her death, then the said share in the corpus of the said child so dying shall vest in the survivors of my said children, and the child or children of my deceased child, the latter to take the share of its or their parent, to be paid over to them”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Moore

2. ““But, so far as the value of the interest is concerned, there can be no substantial difference between a remainder which is technically vested, but liable to be defeated by the death of the remainderman before the death of the life tenant, and a vested interest in a contingent remainder; the contingency being the survival of the remainderman after the death of the life tenant. A purchaser of either interest would take exactly the same chance of enjoying the possession of the property and the risk would be no greater in the one case than in the other.””

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

3. “[T]here is a wide difference between a vested interest in a contingent remainder, which is an existing estate, and a contingent interest”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Continental Cablevision of New England, Inc. v. United Broadcasting Co.