Bunting v. Speek’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 39 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““I will and bequeath to my beloved wife, Nancy Bunting, after all my just debts and liabilities are paid, all the rest of my estate, real and personal, to have and to hold them, together with all rights and privileges thereto belonging, during her lifetime, and then they are to descend to my legal heirs.” (p. 426.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stevenson v. Stevenson · McCartney v. Robbins

2. ““An estate is given to A for years, remainder to B for years, remainder to, C for life, each of these persons being alive and having a perfect right to the land in the' order named, . . . they have each of them a vested remainder. . . . But if the estate to C had been in fee instead of for life, though he might not have lived to enjoy it, it would descend to his heirs, who would take it in his place, or whether for fee or for life, he might have conveyed it in his lifetime by deed, and his grantees would take the same rights in respect to it that he himself possessed.” (Bunting v. Speek, 41 Kan. 424, 447 , 21 Pac. 288 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kirkpatrick v. Kirkpatrick

3. ““We shall adopt Blackstone’s classification and definitions of estates in remainder, both vested and contingent. They are approved by Kent; are more easily understood than those of other text-writers; and better suited to the condition of real property in this state.” (p. 432.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCartney v. Robbins