Margulis v. Teichman’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “"We have agreed upon the foregoing disposition of our property, and in consideration thereof, it is further agreed that this will shall be forever binding upon [either of us] and upon each of us, and shall bind our distributees and representatives and that this will shall not be revoked by [either of us] or by the survivor of [either of us] with the exception only that it may be revoked by a writing duly subscribed by [either of us] and executed with the formality of a will.””

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

2. “may nevertheless influence the direction of the courts even in previously existing situations.”

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