Thames v. Holcomb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “from the time the act or acts were committed by which the actor becomes chargeable.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 642 So. 2d 361 - Alvarez v. Coleman · 242 So. 3d 972 - L.H. Manning v. Robert Perry

2. “Hereafter all declarations or creations of trusts or confidence of or in any land shall be made and manifested by writing, signed by the party who declares or creates such trust, or by his last will, in writing, or else they shall be utterly void; and every writing declaring or creating a trust shall be acknowledged or proved as other writings, and shall be lodged with the clerk of the chancery court of the proper county to be recorded, and shall only take effect from the time it is so lodged for record; * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 So. 2d 527 - Smith v. Smith

3. “The third instrument, or paper writing, executed by Vernard Droke and Dixie Droke, styled "Revocable Trust Agreement-Droke Family Trust," was never lodged with the Clerk of the Chancery Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi to be recorded as required by Section 91-9-1, Mississippi Code, Annotated. The so-called Trust instrument contained no acknowledgment of delivery, and, hence, was not entitled to record, from which it inevitably follows that the attempted trust never had any effect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 642 So. 2d 361 - Alvarez v. Coleman