Jones v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 22 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““All persons interested in the action of the administrator, to he affected by his. settlement, are charged with due notice of its filing. They are required to follow the regular statutory proceedings of the probate court; and taire notice of what may affect them. Administrations must, perforce, go through these courts; and they would he attended with additional hardships, delays and expense, if special notice to every one interested was required. * * * There are many allowances of an improper nature, especially concerning attorney’s and agent’s fees, and, as already noticed, commissions. The court seems to have been more liberal to the administrator than is consistent with a due regard to the rights of the heirs and distributees. These objectionable points, except as above stated, all range themselves under the class of errors. There is very little of a material nature which might not have been corrected at the time, or prevented, if the guardians of the children, or their mother, or any friend, had taken an interest in their affairs. The error should have been corrected by appeal, cr some other supervisory proceeding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Worthington