Turrentine v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 19 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * The rule in this state as to whether descriptions in deeds are sufficient to convey title is that the description therein must furnish a key by which the land attempted to be conveyed can be definitely located. * * * It will be observed that the description in the deed does not identify it as being in any county or even in the state. It does not furnish a key by which the land might be certainly identified. For aught said in the deed, the land intended to be conveyed might be in another state. Had the deed said that it was all the land owned by Will Turrentine in Hempstead county, Ark., the deed, itself, would have furnished, a key by which the land might be located, hut to simply say it was all the land owned by him, wherever situated, is too uncertain and indefinite to furnish a key by which any particular land might be identified.” 193 Ark. at page 254, 99 S.W.2d at page 586, emphasis added.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Afflick v. Pekin Wood Products Co. · Sorrells v. Bailey Cattle Co.

2. “All the right, title, interest, equity, and/or claim of every kind of character, which I may now or hereafter have, as heir of Richard Turrentine, deceased, in and to all moneys, credits, chattels, effects, insurance funds, choses in action, and/or real, personal or mixed property of every kind or nature and wherever situated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowlin v. Keifer