In re Muller’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 13 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. “(b) The granting of administration and all matters and things of probate jurisdiction relating to the composition, administration, sale, settlement, and final distribution of estates of deceased persons, including ... claims against the executor or administrator for those services related to the prior care and maintenance of the decedent ... [as well as] (c) The interpretation and construction of wills ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Samuel Rogers v. Joseph Rogers

2. “We interpret legislative intent from the statute as written and will not consider what the legislature might have said or add words that the legislature did not include.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Samuel Rogers v. Joseph Rogers

3. “Courts can neither ignore the plain language of the legislation nor add words which the lawmakers did not see fit to include.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of Gregory Neal and Lauren DiGiulio