Templeton v. Stong’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1979
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Littlefield State Bank v. Moore · Slegel v. Lauer · 9 Smith & H. 661 - Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Bell · Hicks v. Sprankle · Yarbrough v. Yarbrough
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fatal objection to appellant’s theory that the deed conveyed to Jessie Templeton a base or conditional fee is that such an estate is not favored by the law and will in no particular be implied. Unless such an estate is created by the express language of the deed or will, the grantor or testator will be conclusively presumed to have intended at fee simple absolute. There is certainly no language in any part of the deed under review where the grantor expressly created a base or conditional fee in Jessie Templeton. “ ‘It is a well-settled rule that conditions tending to destroy estates, such as conditions, subsequent, are not favored in law. They are strictly construed. Accordingly, no provision will be interpreted to create such a condition if the language will bear any other reasonable interpretation, unless the language, used unequivocally, indicates an intention upon the part of the grantor or devisor to that effect . . .”19 Am. Jur. 527, Sec. 64. “Cases cited by appellant afford little help for the solution of the question here before us, since in all those cases, without exception, express words were used to create the estate. The qualification or condition upon which the estate is to determine must be found in the instrument creating the estate. Slegel v. Lauer, 148 Pa. 236 , 23 A. 996 , 15 L. R. A. 547; Hanks v. Magnolia Petroleum Co., Tex. Civ. App., 14 S. W. (2d) 348 ; Id., Tex. Com. App., 24 S. W. (2d) 5 . And these express words must be such as are clearly of li”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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