Greer v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Treating deeds and wills as on the same footing before as well as since the Code, Mrs. Ferrell, under this deed from her father, took a base or qualified fee, as was decided by this court, in an almost similar case,—Matthews v. Hudson, 81 Ga. 120 , 7 S. E. 286 . See that case and the authorities there cited. She, having no child or children at the time, took a fee, subject to be devested upon her dying without child or children or grandchild or grandchildren.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Printup v. Hill

2. “An absolute estate may be created to commence in future, and the fee may be in abeyance without detriment to the rights of subsequent remainders. A fee may be limited upon a fee, either by deed or will, where the plain intention of the grantor or testator requires it, and no other rule of law is violated thereby.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Guess v. Morgan