Rutherford v. Deaver’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But whatever may have been the basis of the conclusion reached by the court in that case, if it was that, notwithstanding the absence of testimony to the contrary, a presumption should not be indulged that a substantial gift, by an intestate parent of property belonging to his separate estate, to one of his children, was intended as an advancement to that child, we think it was wrong and against the overwhelming weight of the authorities.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rutherford v. Deaver