Hunt v. White’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

53 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ As the law requires wills, both of real and personal estate to bo in writing,, it cannot consistently with this doctrino permit parol evidence to be adduced to contradict, add to, or explain the contents of such will; and the principle of this rule evidently demands an inflexible adherence to it, even when the consequence is the partial or total failure of the testator’s intended disposition; for it would have been of little avail to require that a will ab origine should be in w riting, or to fence a testator round with a guard of attesting witnesses, if, when the written instrument failed to malee a full and explicit disclosure of his scheme of disposition, its deficiencies might be supplied, or its inaccuracies corrected from extrinsic sources.” 1 Jarm. Wills, 409.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hanner v. Moulton