Love v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 15 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule of construction prevailing in most states of the Union is that a devise of a fee, coupled with a condition that if the devisee die without issue the estate is to go to others, means dying without issue in the lifetime of the testator, unless a different intention is manifest from the context of the will. ‘The presumption that the contingency of dying without issue,’ says the author of the exhaustive note to the case of Lumpkin v. Lumpkin, 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1063, 1064, ‘is to be restricted to testator’s lifetime being fundamentally limited to cases where an absolute gift is made to the first taker, in express terms or by implication, is not applicable where the gift is clearly of a less interest.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Imbrie v. Hartrampf

2. ““All courts and others concerned in the execution of last wills shall have due regard to the directions of the will and the true interests (intent) and meaning of the testator in all matters brought before them.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Imbrie v. Hartrampf