Foley v. McDonnell’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““These two provisions last above quoted seem to make it clear that, in cases of nonintervention wills, creditors shall present their claims within one year of the publication of notice, and failure so to do bars such claim the same as in other classes of wills. It is true this court held otherwise in Moore v. Kirkman, 19 Wash. 605 , 54 Pac. 24 , and possibly in other cases. But these cases arose under the statute before 1897, when the amendments above quoted were made to the statute in force at that time. Under the present statute, we are of the opinion that it is the duty of the executor, under wills like the one in question, to publish a notice to creditors, and failure of the creditors to file a claim within the year bars such claim. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Security & Loan Co. v. Englehart

2. ““That in all such cases the claims against such estates shall be paid within one year from the date of the first publication of notice to creditors to present their claims, unless such time be extended by the court, for good cause shown, for a reasonable time: . . .; ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. First Security & Loan Co. v. Englehart