Taylor v. Wait’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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

1. ““In the complaint it is alleged, in effect, that prior to the making of the wills, above referred to, Mary, Lena, and Frank entered into an agreement to make reciprocal wills and that the wills above referred to were the result of that agreement. . . “Mr. Hill, of course, drew all three wills, but he had been the family attorney for many years and there is nothing significant in his drawing all three wills. . . . “ ‘The cases are legion involving contracts to devise and bequeath property. They may be generally grouped or classified as follows: (1) Cases wherein the wills themselves disclose a contract or agreement to make certain disposition of property. In this class of cases the wills refer to each other and generally contain a recital that each will is made in consideration of the other. (2) Cases in which the claimants assert an agreement whereby certain services of a peculiar and personal nature were rendered in consideration of a promise to devise or bequeath property. (3) Cases where the wills themselves do not refer to each other or disclose any contract, but which are nevertheless taken into consideration, together with all of the facts and circumstances surrounding their execution, in determining the existence of an alleged contract. The cause of the plaintiffs, if any exists, comes within the last-named classification.’ Taylor v. Wait, 140 Ore. 680 , 14 P. 2d 283, 285 . “There is no competent evidence of á contract made between the two sisters and the brother at or”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Paull v. Earlywine