Bevins v. George’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The true question,’ said Chancellor Walworth, ‘to be decided by the master, under the statute, is whether the whole property, taken together, will be greatly injured, or diminished in value, if separated into parts, in the hands of different persons, according to their several rights and interests in the whole, in other words, whether the aggregate value of the several parts, when held by different individuals in severalty, would be materially less than the whole value of the property, if owned by one person. Clason v. Clason, 6 Paige (N. Y. 541), 545. A sale must be decreed, when necessary to enable the Court to divide the property upon the principle that “equality is equity.” Higginbottom v. Short, 25 Miss. 160 (57 Am. [Dec.] 198).’ ” [ 36 Tenn. App. 308 , 255 S. W. (2d) 411 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 43 Tenn. App. 286 - Summers v. Conger

2. “Any person entitled to a partition of the premises, under the provisions of §§ 29-27-101 — 29-27-123, is equally entitled to have such premises sold for division, in the following cases: (1) If the premises are so situated that partition thereof cannot be made. (2) Where the premises are of such description that it would be manifestly for the advantage of the parties that the same should be sold instead of partitioned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gober v. Burrus