Brown v. McCommas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the legislative policy in this commonwealth, as is evidenced by Section 2341 of the Statutes, to make all interests in or claims to real estate the subject of sale or devise by will, and, clearly, under its provisions Mrs. Combs had the right to sell and make perfect title to her equitable interest during the existence of the trust, which was for her life and she likewise could sell and convey a perfect title to the property in remainder, and, if she could make such conveyances separately to different individuals, there can be no valid reason why she may not execute one deed covering both interests to a single individual, and vest him with perfect title. An opposite contention is wholly unsupported by reason, and approaches close to the absurd.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Newsom v. Barnes