Chrisman v. Cherisman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The phrase “sound mind,” ’ said Sir James Hanner, ‘covers the whole subject, but emphasis is laid upon two particular functions of mind which must be sound in order to create capacity for the making of a will, for there must be memory to recall the several persons who may be supposed to be in such a position as to become the fitting objects of the testator’s bounty; above all, there must be understanding to comprehend their relations to himself, and their claims upon him.’ (Broughton v. Knight, Law R. 3 Pro. & D. 64; 6 Moak E.R. 350.) This probably is about as correct a definition of the law as any given, but it is merely a reiteration in a different phrase of what has been repeatedly expressed by other judges. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Postelle v. Shuholm