Snyder v. Snider’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Manifestly the devise made in the beginning’ of the will of all of the testator’s property to his wife, is unqualified and absolute, and, such being its. character, it invests her with the fee-simple title' to the property devised; which, even in the absence of words to that effect, by necessary implication or inference also invests her with the unlimited power to sell or otherwise dispose of the property.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brinley v. Brinley's Administrator

2. ““There is nowhere in the will an expression indicating, or from which it fairly may be inferred, that the testator intended to place any restriction whatever upon his wife’s right or power as devisee to sell or otherwise dispose of the property devised her by the will.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Whicker v. Strong