Walters v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The argument would be meritorious if the will stood alone. But we must be guided by the statute which in effect becomes a part of the will. It provides that a different purpose must be plainly expressed in the instrument else the contingency or limitation will take effect upon the death of the beneficiary .at any time. Such contrary purpose, in our opinion, is not clearly or plainly manifested in this will, and we are constrained to hold that the appellee has only a defeasible fee in the land involved.””

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