Cramer v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 25 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In a devise to a wife for life, with remainder to the legal heirs of the testator, to create a contingent remainder the intent so to do must be expressed in words so plain that there is no room for construction. “No remainder will be construed to be contingent which may, consistently with the words used and the intention expressed, be deemed vested.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Estate of Works · Reetz v. Sims

2. ““Know All Men by These Presents, That I, John C. Kelly, of the City of Wichita, County of Sedgwick, and State of Kansas, being of sound mind and disposing memory and not under any restraint, but desiring to make disposition of my property, effective at my death, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking and making void any and all former wills and codicils heretofore made by me at any time.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Estate of Kelly

3. “(p. 675.) (Our italics.) Likewise in the Votapka case, supra, the rule was stated thus: “The law of this state favors the vesting of estates, and instruments transferring an interest in real estate, whether will or deed, will be construed as creating a vested estate, unless a different intent is expressed or clearly implied from the terms of the instrument itself.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Estate of Works