Wolf v. Bollinger’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions

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

1. ““But it is insisted that, at most, the .court had no further authority than to determine whether the instrument, as probated, was the will of the testator or not, and that it had no power to establish the instrument, as originally drawn and executed, without alteration as the true will. “It is certainly an old head of chancery Jurisdiction to establish the validity of wills. Story’s Eq. Ju. 1443 et seq., and notes; Adam’s Bq. 535. “The true contest was, as to which one of two persons was the devisee under the will; and it would fall short of administering a full measure of relief to declare that the one was not, and leave it undetermined, to be adjudged in a further suit, may be, whether the other was a devisee. Both parties being before the court, it best consists with convenience and the rule of chancery practice, that the entire question as to their opposing claims to the devise of the land, should, as between themselves, be put to rest, and that it should be settled which one of them was the devisee.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Palmer v. Bradley