Cole v. McFall’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““The land fell to the daughters under the law of inheritance, subject to the widow’s dower, and the sale made afterwards had no effect to blend it with the estate which was left in the form of personalty. It was already the real estate of the persons entitled, and the sale was a sale of their lands, and as between them the proceeds were their moneys in the proportion of their respective ownerships, and not moneys belonging to the mass left in the form of personal property and disposable under the statute of distributions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grant v. Fletcher