Croft v. Snidow’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “the forgetfulness of the accessible subscribing witness, as to certain necessary facts of execution, does not avoid a prima facie case made out by proof of the genuineness of the signature of the testator and the subscribing witnesses. So, where the subscribing witnesses identify their signatures, but have no recollection of having attested the instrument, or the circumstances of execution, the presumption that it was properly executed will uphold it in the absence of clear and satisfactory proof to the contrary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Canody v. Hamblin

2. “read [the will] or examine it with such care as to be able, upon application to admit to probate, to say that all the pages or clauses of the proposed will were the pages and clauses signed by the testator and attested by them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Canody v. Hamblin

3. “Undue influence is a substitution of the dominant will for that of the ostensible actor. Croft v. Snidow, 183 Va. 649, 657 , 33 S.E.2d 208 (1945).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Garland v. Fitzgerald