Cornelius v. . Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We are not disturbing at all the case of Jones v. Tuck , 3 Jones, 202 ( 48 N.C. 202 ), to which our attention has been called. In that case it appeared that the testator could not have turned himself so as to have seen the attesting witnesses subscribe without danger, and acting contrary to the advice of the physician. In the case before us the turning of the head would have sufficed to enable the testator to see, and that according to the testimony he could do without pain or difficulty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burney v. . Allen

2. “that the attestation being done openly and without any clandestine appearance about it, in the same room with the testatrix, and within two or three feet of her when she had her senses and nothing intervened between her and the witnesses, is good under the statute. It was done both literally and substantially in her presence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burney v. . Allen

3. “after reviewing the authorities upon this point, we think that the strictest interpretation of the law has gone no further than to require that the testator should be in a position and have power without a removal of his person to see what was done. It is not necessary for him, in point of fact to see.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burney v. . Allen