Kay v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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. ““In the case of Perrin v. Praeger, 154 Md. 541, 550 , 140 A. 850, 853 , this court, through Judge Digges, stated that, ‘by analogy to the provisions of the statute in respect to appeals from orders and decrees of the orphans’ court, that the time for the filing of a petition asking the revocation of the probate of a will is limited to thirty days after knowledge of the probate, or knowledge of such facts as would have put one on inquiry and disclosed by such inquiry the fact that it had been admitted to probate.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Travers v. Lavender