114 Md. App. 99 - Ritter v. Ritter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It must appear that at the time of making the will, [the testator] had a full understanding of the nature of the business in which [the testator] was engaged; a recollection of the property of which [the testator] intended to dispose and the persons to whom [the testator] meant to give it, and the relative claims of the different persons who were or should have been the objects of [the testator’s] bounty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 Md. App. 292 - Oliver v. Hays · 172 Md. App. 269 - Dougherty v. Rubenstein

2. “Where a person has been adjudged incompetent from want of understanding to manage his affairs, by reason of physical and mental weakness ..., and the court has appointed a guardian, and not a trustee, the ward is conclusively presumed to lack mental capacity to manage his affairs, insofar as parties and privies to the guardianship proceedings are concerned; and, while not conclusive as to others, it is presumptive proof of the mental incapacity of the ward, and this presumption continues unless rebutted in a proper proceeding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 145 Md. App. 635 - Boyd v. Bowen