Johnson v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this State it is a settle rule of property that an attempt to create an estate by the entirety in a partition deed passes no title and creates no new estate. * * * Those cases cited in the brief in behalf of complainant with regard to the principle of giving effect to the intention of the parties, especially Runions v. Runions, 186 Tenn. 25 , 207 S.W.2d 1016 , 1 A.L.R.2d 242 , have no application to the question involved herein. The husband' [in Runions] owned the fee and he evidenced a clear intent to create an estate of survivorship in his wife. On page 32 of 186 Tenn., on page 1019 of 207 S.W.2d, the Court said: ‘This intention violates no rule of statute or common law. The right of survivorship may be annexed to an estate in common created by deed. * * "Whereas, in thé instant [Johnson] case the partition deed under the common law rule passed no title and could not create any new estate. 206 Tenn. at 175 , 332 S.W.2d at 209 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hurt v. Martin