Henry v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““However, even though creditors of the ancestor may not have their rights affected by a suit or a sale thus made, this does not change the character of the suit or bring to bear the inhibition contained against the filing of a settlement suit within six months after the qualification of the personal representative. Appellees may have had well-founded reasons for objecting to a premature sale of the property, which the court should have recognized at the proper time, but certainly there was nothing to prevent the suit from proceeding or the court from taking jurisdiction of it prior to the expiration of the six months ’ period. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Courtney v. Morgan