Tuttle v. Steele’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. ““I give to my wife my one half undivided interest in the farm owned by John W. Tnttle & myself on the Gray and Evans Pike for her life time she is to keep in high state of cultivation and cannot sell it at her death it is to go to my great-neices cmd nephews including any that may yet be born.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shedd's Adm'r v. Gayle

2. ““The absolute power of alienation shall not he suspended, by any limitation or condition whatever, for a longer period than during the continuance of a life or lives in being at the creation ' of the estate, and twenty-one years and ten months thereafter; * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bach v. Pace

3. ““The devise in question is clearly a fee simple in remainder to testator’s great-nieces and great-nephews after the death of the testator’s wife, subject to open up and let in great-nieces and great-nephews born after testator’s death.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Shedd's Adm'r v. Gayle