Skipper v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““Every person competent to make a last will and testament may thereby devise and bequeath all the estate, right, title, and interest in possession, expectancy, reversion, or remainder, which he has, or at the time of his death shall have, of, in or to any lands, tenements, heredita-ments, or rents charged upon or issuing out of them, or shall have of, in or to any personal property whatever, including choses in action, subject to the limitations prescribed by law . . . ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Terrell v. Graham