Dulin v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

83 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Item 2d. To the children of my son, A. B. Moore, he being dead, I give and devise” certain real estate. . . . “Item 9th. I hereby appoint R. R. Dulin of Sherman, Texas, trustee to receive and control the property bequeathed and devised to the children of A. B. Moore. . . . “Item 10th. I hereby direct and empower the said trustees to keep possession and control of the property bequeathed and devised to their said beneficiaries during the lives of said beneficiaries. Said trustees are not authorized to dispose of any of the body of said property, but are expressly prohibited from so doing, except for the purpose of reinvesting, which last they may do at their discretion. Said trustees are authorized and empowered and directed to expend the rents, interests and profits arising from said property in furnishing the said beneficiaries with necessaries and such other things as may be suitable for the respective beneficiaries, according to their stations in life.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Perry v. Brown