Wolfe v. Herndon’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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In analyzing the statutes our starting point must be § 100 of the Probate Code, which sweepingly declares that, except in two instances, all claims against a decedent’s estate, ‘whether due or to become due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, founded on contract or otherwise,’ shall be forever barred unless presented to the personal representative or filed in court within six months after the first publication of the notice to creditors. Ark. Stats., § 62-2601. This language unmistakably expresses the legislative intention to require the assertion of all claims, including those sounding in tort, within the six-month period.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chamberlain v. Crawford

2. ““McAllen Wolfe complains that his guardian ad litem was not appointed in strict compliance with the statute. This is immaterial. The question is whether his claim against the Jacobs estate has been presented within the time allowed by law. * * * In the absence of a savings clause it was incumbent upon McAllen to present his claim in compliance with the statute. The asserted procedural irregularity could not affect his affirmative duty of establishing his claim according to law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chamberlain v. Crawford