Sippy v. Colter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““What we have heretofore said is a sufficient answer to the first contention of the appellants that its original motion after the death of Mrs. Sippy to dismiss the bill on the ground that the cause of action did not survive her death, should have been granted. If the cause of action survived, the executor of Mrs. Sippy had the power to prosecute the bill after her death: §35 (f), Act of June 7, 1917, P. L. 447, as amended (20 PS 776). It was the right of Marvin to a transfer of the legal title to the premises for which he had an equitable title that was the primary basis of the issue and Mrs. Sippy sought to enforce that right as a donor. In her lifetime she sought, as donor, to secure performance by the trustee of a right which she had reserved in her deed of trust. Her death did not terminate the right and her executors were empowered by statute to continue the assertion of that right in the same action. Not only so, but the representative of Marvin intervened in the same action. The right of action survived.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 58 Pa. D. & C.2d 731 - Miller v. DeSzirmay