Swan v. Ispas’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Courts of equity have jurisdiction ... to decree partition of property held by cotenants, the right of a cotenant to partition is absolute, and when the character of the property is such as to be insusceptible of partition among the cotenants, as is manifestly the case here, the court may order a sale of the property and distribution of the proceeds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorothy Elizabeth Brewer and Oscar S. Brewer v. John A. Middleton and Nancy M. Kingman