Mabry v. Harp’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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

1. ““In 1 Freeman on Executions, §113, it is said: ‘Crops, whether growing or standing in the field ready to be harvested, are, when produced by annual cultivation, no part of the realty; they are, therefore, liable to voluntary transfer as chattels. It is equally well settled that they may be assigned and sold under execution.’ In Caldwell v. Custard, 7 Kas. 303 , it was said that ‘growing crops are personal estate.’ It was said in Polley v. Johnson, 52 Kas. 478 , that ‘annual crops which are the product of industry and care, sown by the owner of the soil, are, while growing and immature, personal property.’ In Bellows v. Wells, 36 Vt. 599 it was held that ‘a lessee might convey to his lessor all the crops which might be grown on the leased land during the term, and no delivery of the crops after they were harvested was necessary, even as against attaching creditors.’ See Hull v. Hull, 13 Reporter, 362 .” (p. 399.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Peterson v. Honaker