McClure v. Lenz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““Or if one was induced to render services by declarations of a party not in the form of an exact promise to provide for one in his will, and the declarations were made for the purpose of inducing the person to render the services charged for, such declarations would undoubtedly repel the presumption that the services so rendered were voluntarily rendered, even where the parties were members of the same family. But, to have such effect, the promises or declarations must have been made under such circumstances as woidd reasonably induce the person in whose favor they were made to rely upon them, and the services must have been performed in reliance upon them. They must have been made to the party rendering the •services, or to some one in his behalf, or they must have been made in his presence, and with the purpose and intention that they should be acted upon by him.” (Our italics.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 112 Ind. App. 318 - Weir v. Lake