Hoover v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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

1. “to an estate conveyed or devised to persons in their own right when it manifestly appears from the tenor of the instrument that it was intended the part of one dying should then belong to the others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Austin B. Sprouse, Debtor. Roy v. Wolfe, III v. Austin B. Sprouse

2. “obvious to the understanding, evident to the mind, not obscure or hidden, and ... synonymous with open, clear, visible, unmistakable, indubitable, indisputable, evident and self-evident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Austin B. Sprouse, Debtor. Roy v. Wolfe, III v. Austin B. Sprouse

3. “'no particular words are necessary' to create a survivorship estate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Austin B. Sprouse, Debtor. Roy v. Wolfe, III v. Austin B. Sprouse