Langman v. Marbe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is settled law that, when an estate in fee simple is clearly given a person, the estate so given cannot be cut down- or modified by subsequent clauses in the will, unless the intention to do so is manifest from words as clear and certain .as those which give the fee-simple estate. * * * It is evident, under the settled rule in this state, that it cannot be said that it was the clear intention of the testator, by clauses 3 and 4, to reduce the estate of the widow to one for life or years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clow v. Hosier