Moore v. McAlester’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is not suggested that other parts of the will require a different meaning, or that the testator was not aware of the true meaning of the phrase.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Trusts Created by Agreement With Harrington · Third National Bank in Nashville v. Stevens

2. “"After the final decree of adoption is entered, the relation of parent and child and all the rights, duties, and other legal consequences of the natural relation of child and parent shall thereafter exist between the adopted child and the adoptive parents of the child and the kindred of the adoptive parents. From the date of the final decree of adoption, the child shall be entitled to inherit real and personal property from and through the adoptive parents in accordance with the statutes of descent and distribution, and the adoptive parents shall be entitled to inherit real and personal property from and through the child in accordance with said statutes.” (Emphasis supplied)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hines v. First National Bank & Trust Co. of Oklahoma City

3. “to exclude adopted children. The district court had found that the testator had intended to limit the devise of the trust property to the issue of his daughter's body, which would exclude an adopted child of the daughter. The Oklahoma Supreme Court stated that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Trusts Created by Agreement With Harrington