Meech v. Grigsby’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 15 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . where the parties to the contract have definitely renounced and waived all right, title and interest — present, future or contingent-7-in and to the property of the other and have agreed that in case of death the survivor shall not be entitled to receive or claim any interest in or to the property of the deceased, it is held the surviving husband has been divested not only of his right of inheritance but also of any homestead right to the land on which the wife was residing at the time of her death.” (Syl. If 4.)”

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

2. ““In order to constitute an abandonment of the homestead the abandonment must be voluntary. Absence of a wife from the home occasioned by the husband’s abuse does not constitute a voluntary abandonment of homestead rights. It is well established that a wife by living apart from her husband without fault on her part does not thereby divest herself of her homestead rights at his death. (Citations omitted.)” Meech v. Grigsby, 153 Kan. at 787 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Kan. App. 2d 523 - In Re the Estate of Fink

3. ““We think it was the intention of the lawmakers under the new probate code to require the widow to promptly select and describe the ground she claims as a homestead.” (p. 788.)”

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