Wilson v. Pharris’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A remainder is an estate limited to take effect in possession immediately after the expiration of a prior estate created at the same time and by the same instrument. A “[r]eversion” is defined ... [a]s the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him.... Unlike a remainder, which must be created by deed or devise, a reversion arises only by operation of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2010 Ark. App. 276 - Deltic Timber Corp. v. Newland

2. “... At common law, if a man seised of an estate limits it to one for life, remainder to his own right heirs, they take not as remaindermen, but as reversioners; and it will be, moreover, competent for him, as being himself the reversioner, after making such a limitation, to grant away the reversion. The same result is reached when an ultimate remainder in fee is contingent. Until it vests there is a reversion in the grantor or devisor md his heirs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fletcher v. Hurdle