Blue v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The principle is thus stated in I Simes, Law of Future Interests, § 76, p. 120: `A remainder limited without words of condition to a class of persons, one or more of whom is in existence and ascertained, is vested, though subject to be divested in part by the coming into existence or ascertainment of other members of the class.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 So. 2d 1359 - Zimmerman v. First Nat. Bank of Birmingham

2. “". . . [I]n the absence of a clear expression of a contrary intention on the part of the grantor, a remainder to the children of a life tenant is a remainder to a class, the members being composed of all the children of the life tenant without regard to the time of birth. . . ."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 348 So. 2d 1359 - Zimmerman v. First Nat. Bank of Birmingham