Steeby v. Norcott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 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. “* * * “Good discretion may require some latitude in closing out decedent’s business, and this a probate court will duly consider. An executor or administrator may be justified in continuing the business so far as is necessary for the purpose of winding up the same and converting the assets into money or carrying out existing contracts of decedent under a proper order of the probate court.” Citing authorities. * * “The consent of the persons interested in the decedent’s estate to the action of the personal representative in continuing the decedent’s business, as a rule, will relieve the executor or administrator from liability for losses resulting therefrom, although such personal representative did not inform the beneficiaries that the operations were not being conducted at a profit. ’ ’ Citing authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hemshorn, Lelek v. Hemshorn