Laisure v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A gift to a class is a gift of an aggregate sum to a body of persons uncertain in number at the time of the gift, to be ascertained at a future time, and who are all to take in equal or in some other definite proportions, the share of each being dependent for its amount upon the ultimate number of persons" 1 Jarman, Wills [5th ed.] 269"; Im re Kimberly's Estate (1896), 150 N.Y. 90 , 44 N.E. 945 ; In re King's Estate, supra [ (1910), 200 N.Y. 189 , 98 N.E. 484 ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Westervelt v. First Interstate Bank of Northern Indiana

2. “the reasoning of the cases is often very refined and subtle, and involves a consideration of minute differences of language; and the final determination of each case must after all, depend upon the intention, to be gathered from all of the language used by the particular testator whose will is before the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Westervelt v. First Interstate Bank of Northern Indiana