Swann v. Austell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““Immediately after the renunciation of the will and the taking of dower by the widow, the executors filed a hill in the superior court of Fulton county relating to the rights ol’ the widow and the children in the ‘Trout House’ property, under which a verdict and decree was rendered in November, Í880, referring in terms to the entire ‘Trout House lot,’ including that which had been theretofore set apart as dower, holding that the widow had no interest in this property, and that the executors should sell same at public auction and divide the proceeds among the four children. In pursuance of said decree, however, the executors sold only that part of the property referred to which was not set apart as dower; that is, that part which fronted on Decatur street and ran back along North Pryor street about 140 feet, to an alley which separated this part of the Trout House lot from that which had been set apart as dower. No question is made here as to the residue of the estate, or any property belonging to the estate, except that set apart to the widow as her dower, as stated above.””

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