136 Ind. App. 110 - Kessler v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A. I questioned her about the priority (sic) of making a deed instead of a will to carry out her desire, and Mrs. Kessler had her mind made up that she wanted the deed because she expressed the opinion that wills could be broken, and that she did not want this land to go to her sisters (sic) children, the Watson heirs. Q. Did you advise her as to whether she should or she should not make a deed? A. I did. Q. What did you advise her? A. I advised her to transfer it by will, but she had already stated her objections to that. Mrs. Kessler, in her mind thought that wills could be broken. She definitely had reason to believe that, I don't know. Q. Did you advise her as to whether wills were any more secure than deeds as to finality? A. No. I advised her that deeds were more secure probably than wills, that they were harder to contest the (sic) wills. Q. Did you advise her as to whether she should or should not do what she proposed to do? A. I advised her to carry out her — what she proposed to do by a will. Q. Did she over rule (sic) you? A. Yes, Mrs. Kessler knew what she wanted, and that's what I was hired to do, and I prepared the deed. (Emphasis in original and supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lucas v. Frazee