Dirks v. Goertz’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““The perfection of an appeal from the probate court to the district court is a simple matter. The party making the appeal shall serve upon all adverse parties or their attorneys of record, or upon the probate judge for the adverse parties a written notice of appeal specifying the judgment or decision appealed from, and make proper proof of service * * *. It is not required that service be had upon all three to perfect the appeal; proper service upon any one of the three named is sufficient (In re Estate of Patterson, 185 Kan. 135, 136 , 340 P.2d 369 ).” 367 P. 2d at 55 .”

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