Gamble v. Mosloski’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. ““There is no question of the obligation of the grantee to the grantors, and the survivor of them, under the deed in question. Nor is there doubt that a lien was reserved whereby the grantors or the survivor could have enforced the grantee’s obligation. But neither grantors nor survivor resorted to the lien. Nor, apparently, was any other step taken to enforce performance by the grantee, defendant. So the question is: May the administrator of the survivor’s estate resort to the lien and so work a forfeiture of defendant’s property, for that might be the result. We think not. “Plainly it was the purpose of the deed to secure for the parents from the son an annuity for their support, rather than for the benefit, directly or indirectly, of anyone else. It was not the purpose to build up an estate to be passed on to others on the death of the surviving grantee [sic]. Yet, should plaintiff prevail, the latter would be the result, contrary to the plain intention of the deed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Klick v. Fearing