Long v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The safer, as well as more logical, conclusion is that no mention of the ‘issue’ or ‘heirs’ of the children was made in this last sentence, while such mention was made in each of the two immediately preceding sentences, because the testator’s intention for some undis closed reason of his own was not the same in the situation contemplated in the last sentence, as was his intention in the situations contemplated in each of the two immediately preceding sentences. ’ ’ The brief of appellants says that the lease and option “construed together indicate that the lessee was required to give 90 days’ notice of its exercise of the option to purchase; that if lessors are mistaken in this, that under no circumstances could the written instruments be construed to require less than 30 days ’ notice; as 30 days’ notice was required in the case of an election to extend the term of the lease. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gulf Refining Co. v. Belz