Den v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But they” (referring to William and Thomas) “being both young and liable to die under age, and without lawful issue, he meant to provide for such an event by adding ‘that if either of them die, the survivor shall enjoy the other’s property, ‘evidently meaning, die under age, and without lawful issue. If.they should leave any issue, he had before given it to such issue by the name of heirs; he never intended to take it from such issue, by giving both shares to the survivor, thus making him a double portion, and leaving the bereaved children of the deceased son destitute of the very support he had so carefully provided for them by the name of heirs. It is contrary to the justice of all his other provisions to suppose it. Being unlearned, he left out the words under age and without lawful issue, by mistake.” (l. c. 37.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bernero v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

2. ““And further, it is my will, that if William or Thomas should die, or either of them, the remainder to enjoy the other’s property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bernero v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.