Pearson v. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 16 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The law favors the vesting of estates, and in cases of doubt the construction will be adopted which leads to that result. An estate is vested when there is an immediate right of present enjoyment or a present fixed right of future enjoyment. It carries with it the seizin in law or in equity, according to the character of the estate, and takes effect in interest and right immediately on the death of the testator, although it may not take effect in possession and enjoyment until the death of a life tenant or the termination of another particular estate.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 247 Ill. App. 196 - Cooper v. Kryger

2. “‘ ‘ The other branch of the rule is, that if the payment was postponed for the convenience of the property or fund then there is an immediate vesting of the title and the postponement merely respects the time of enjoyment, even though there be no other gift than the general direction to pay or distribute at the appointed time. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. v. Kane

3. ““The legally expressed intention of the testator as found within the four corners of the will must be the chart and guide of the court. That this great fundamental rule may prevail .and the property of the testator take the posthumous course intended by the owner other rules are made and unmade.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. Menefee