Ewing v. Nesbitt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Fourth: I will and bequeath to my daughter, Mary A. Nesbitt, nee Ewing, and to the heirs of her body, the south half (%) of the northwest quarter (Vi) of section No. twenty-one (21), township thirteen (13), of range twenty-four (24), in Johnson county, Kansas.” (p. 708.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gardner v. Anderson · Bryant v. Flanner

2. ““Nothing is to be found in the acts relating to conveyances, descents and distributions, or wills, incompatible with the existence of such estates, and in their unfettered form such estates are not out of harmony with the conditions and wants of the people of Kansas. . . . The overweening propensity to perpetuate family name and family property which made estates tail so obnoxious in the middle ages is fairly curbed by the right of a tenant in tail to convert his tenancy into a fee simple, and is not a menace to the general welfare of the people of this state; and it will be remembered that this right -became one of the characteristics of the estate.” (p. 716.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gardner v. Anderson