Davis v. Upson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If the decision of the court of the domicile of a deceased person does not control in the matter, whether the deceased died testate or intestate, there must necessarily result a multitude of decisions upon that question; and if a devisee may carry a will from state to state, and present it for probate in each state where the decedent had a debt due him at the time of his death, and until he can find a state under the laws of which it can be admitted to probate, great confusion in the settlement of estates would follow.””

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

2. ““It is clear from the language of section 10 that a foreign will can be admitted to probate in this State only in case the testator died seized of ‘lands or other real estate’ situated in this State.””

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