Pate v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The final question concerns the effect of the quoted devise of land in the will. The decisions on this point are concisely analyzed and summarized on 3 Page on Wills (3rd ed. 1941), Sec. 1107, and 6 Ibid. Sec. 1107: ‘The gift may not indicate by direct language the estate which testator wishes to give to A; but the gift may be to A until he marries, as long as A remains a widow or a widower as the case may be and the like. In a case of gifts of this sort, the courts have differed as to the inference which they will draw as to the estate of A. By what seems to be the weight of authority a gift to A until her marriage or during widowhood and the like gives a life estate to A’.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. King v. King

2. “"The existence and contents of a judgment, sought to be made available as a basis for the application of this doctrine, must be proved by offering in evidence the record, or a copy of it. Appellants did not do this. The reason for this requirement is that the plea must clearly show the issues and questions involved in the former proceedings, so as to demonstrate that those now presented existed in the former case and were adjudicated. Viator v. Stone, 201 Miss. 487 , 29 So.2d 274 (1947). ( 232 Miss. at 15 , 97 So.2d at 739 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 381 So. 2d 601 - Astro Transport, Inc. v. Montez