Hayes v. De Groot’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"There is no evidence from which a sane mind could draw the conclusion of murder, malfeasance in office, perjury, attempted blinding and attempted murder, `whitewash,' suppression of evidence, and the whole line of accusations made by him as the testimony and letters received in evidence discloses. There is no evidence from which a sane mind could draw the further conclusion that his daughters were ungrateful and disloyal because they failed to share his warped view and reasoning. There is no doubt that whatever estrangement that existed between the three daughters and the father is coincident with the formulation in his mind of the delusions he harbored. He could not understand and he could not reason that a sane mind could not accommodate the beliefs he held and the wild accusations he made." In re Mahnke's Estate, supra at 408.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Matter of Estate of Koch