Taylor v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“what became of the two-sixths of the real estate nominally, it is contended, given to [the deceased sons], alone, who were dead, at the time of the devise, and, of course, could not take? Did they go to the heirs of [the deceased sons] or did they lapse to the heirs in general?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keck v. Walker“naming the [deceased sons] for the sake of convenience, in his will, to indicate the proportion-the shares. In other words, we think the devise was not in fact to [the deceased sons], but to their heirs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keck v. Walker“I give and bequeath unto my sons, George, Alexander, Joseph, John, Sydnor, and Samuel, all my real estate ... to be equally divided among them or their heirs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keck v. Walker
How this case has been treated — in progress
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