Colvin v. Hutchison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But, when she renounces the will in the state of her residence, where its validity is established by probate, she renounces it in toto everywhere and cannot take testamentary benefits under it anywhere. * * * “We therefore have no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that the widow, Mary Livingston, was not bound by the provisions of her husband’s will, but could take her rights under the law in the Missouri land. But this necessarily presents for our decision a more difficult question, namely: What rights did she get under the Missouri Law? This must be determined by our own statutes.” ■”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Singleton v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

2. ““ * * * The will offers her certain testamentary benefits; each state offers her instead certain estates in the land located therein; but the law of each state governs the kind of estate she may have there if she renounces the will. * * * If she renounces the will, in order to make the choice between different estates any state offers for renunciation, she must do what that state requires or get only what she would receive there upon her failure to make such a choice in the required way.’’ (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Estate of Miller