Owings v. State’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. ““The office of executor or administrator being generally one of profit, the General Assembly, in order to increase the revenue of the State, made their commissions subject to a tax of one-tenth ; where the executor as such, enjoys the benefit of his office, it was proper he should take it ‘cmn onere’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Balt. C. Rep. 207 - State v. Williams