Thames v. Thames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'Improvidence means a lack of care and foresight, of forehandedness, of thrift, of business capacity. It does not mean, however, that the capacity for care and foresight must needs to be proved by the accumulation of any considerable estate, for men are largely creatures of time and chance. Improvidence in this connection means only that probable lack of care and foresight in the management of the estate's only asset which would endanger its safety in case administration should be committed to appellee.' " Nichols v. Smith , 186 Ala. 587 , 591-92, 65 So. 30 , 31 (1914).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engel v. Amonett

2. “"No person must be deemed a fit person to serve as executor who is under the age of 19 years, or who has been convicted of an infamous crime, or who, from intemperance, improvidence or want of understanding, is incompetent to discharge the duties of the trust."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engel v. Amonett

3. “) that is in need of someone to substitute for a deceased party , who either has no personal representative or has one who is conflicted .'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Campbell v. J.R.C.