Fassitt v. Seip’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 30 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““He [testator] intended that his wife should have every use and enjoyment of his residuary estate that he himself had while living. If necessary for her comfort and maintenance she could have consumed and expended all of it, and for these purposes could have conveyed a fee simple title to a bona fide purchaser. But this she did not do. She died in possession of the properties and undertook to dispose of them by her will. We, therefore, agree with the conclusion reached by the learned court below that the properties in question are a part of the unexpended remainder of the estate of her husband and passed under his will to the devisees named therein. Not having consumed the residuary estate of her husband in her lifetime the wife could not dispose of it by will. These conclusions find ample support in the following cases: Henninger v. Henninger, 202 Pa. 207 ; Kennedy v. Pittsburgh, Etc., R. R. Co., 216 Pa. 575 ; Allen v. Hirlinger, 219 Pa. 56 ; Briggs v. Caldwell, 236 Pa. 369 .””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Carnell's Estate · Phillips Estate