Vining v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But it may be claimed that the ownership of the homestead is in the family in the aggregate, and not merely in the person in whom the legal title is vested ; and therefore, that whenever a transfer of the ownership is had, in whatever mode or by whatever means, it is an alienation of the homestead from the family. The constitution, however, says that ‘a homestead . occupied as a residence by the family of the owner . . . shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife when that relation exists.’ This clearly implies that it was not intended that the family as a family or any member thereof, except the ostensible owner, should be considered as an ‘owner.’ ‘The family’ and ‘the owner’ are clearly contradistinguished by the constitution itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mathewson v. Skinner

2. ““It is not the will alone, however, that determines where the title shall go, for the will operating- alone would be powerless. It is the will, and death, and the statutes, operating together, that determine where the property shall go. Indeed, it is the statutes which give force and efficacy to all.” (p; 612.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Postlethwaite v. Edson

3. ““except that it descends to them subject to a certain homestead interest vested in the widow and such of the children as 'occupy the homestead at the time of the intestate’s death.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Postlethwaite v. Edson