Macomber v. Cottrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ Your petitioner further shows that he is informed and believes and charges the truth to be that the statements of the said William Cottrell, to the effect that the said Georgia Cottrell died, without any estate, were false and were made for the purpose of defrauding and defeating your petitioner from recovering Ms proportion of said estate, and for the purpose of obtaining from your petitioner an assignment of all your petitioner’s right and interest in and to said estate, but that, on the contrary, the said estate did amount to some $400,000 and upwards, all of which was unknown to your petitioner.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Macomber v. Cottrell