McMichael v. McMichael’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The technical rule of the common law makes it essential to the creation of an estate in fee simple in a natural person by deed that there he in the deed an express limitation to such person arid his ‘heirs.’ This rule is generally and inflexibly enforced in the United States, except where abrogated or modified by si at uto. While many states have altered this rule by statute, no such statute, as applicable to deeds, has been adopted in this state, and our courts have repeatedly and uniformly recognized and enforced the strict rule of the common law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hickson v. Davenport

2. “When there are no words of inheritance in the premises, in which case the grantee would take only a life estate by implication, there resort may be had to the terms of the habendum to ascertain the quantity of the estate intended to be conveyed, and these terms may, if sufficient, rebut the implication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wallace v. Taylor