Wright v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 54 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he presumption in favor of legitimacy, still holds, whenever it is not inconsistent with the facts of the case; . . .Yet, if such circumstances be in proof as clearly negative the truth of this presumption, the legal intendment will fail, and no general rule of evidence, of universal application, can be prescribed upon this subject. In every case, the fact must be determined by the particular circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. Miller

2. ““In the absence of anything in the will to the contrary, the presumption is that the ancestor intended that his property should go where the law carries it, which is supposed to be the channel of natural descent. To interrupt or disturb this descent, or direct it in a different course, should require plain words to that effect.””

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

3. “the relative situation of the parties. their habits of life, the evidence of conduct and of declarations connected with conduct, and .... any induction which reason suggests, for determining upon the probabilities of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 11 Conn. Super. Ct. 323 - Beal v. Ross