Given v. Cappas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “a. The action must be one in which an administrator or executor is a party, or one of the parties is acting in the capacity of an administrator or executor; It must involve matters which occurred within and during the lifetime of the decedent; It must be a case in which a judgment or allowance may be made or rendered for or against the estate represented by such executor or administrator; The witness must be a necessary party to the issue and not merely a party to the record; The witness must be adverse to the estate and must testify against the estate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Senff v. Estate of Levi

2. “"Every partner must account to the partnership for any benefit, and Rold as trustee for it any profits derived by him without the consent of the other partners from any transaction connected with the formation, conduct, or liquidation of the partnership, or from any use by him of its property." (Emphasis supplied).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boushehry v. Ishak