Henry v. Scurry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““They desired the petitioner, in the future, to take full charge and control of the said real estate and further requested that instead of having them come to Sumner county, Kansas, to make settlement that he come to Boonville, Missouri, to make settlement each year. “. . . that they desired to have for themselves, and the survivor of them, all of the income and profit from the real estate so long as either of them might live; but that if the petitioner would continue to render services to them in the future as he had in the' past, that they would so prepare their wills that upon the death of the survivor of them, he, the said J. B. Henry, would receive as payment for services rendered in the past and to be rendered in the future and would become the owner of, by bequest and devise, the following described real property in Sumner county, Kansas, [240 acres described.]””

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

2. ““When a lawyer is a witness for his client, except as to merely formal matters, such as the attestation or custody of an instrument and the like, he should leave the trial of the case to other counsel. Except when essential to the ends of justice, a lawyer should avoid testifying in court in behalf of his client.””

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