Guye v. Guye’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In all cases where it is provided in the last will and testament of the deceased that the estate shall be settled in a manner provided in such last will and testament, and that letters testamentary or of administration shall not be required, and where it also duly appears to the court by the inventory filed, and other proof, that the estate is fully solvent, which fact may be established by an order of the court on the coming in of the inventory, it shall not be necessary to take out letters testamentary or of administration, except to admit to probate such will, and to file a true inventory of all the property of such estate in the manner required by existing laws. And after the probate of such will and the filing of such inventory all such estates may be managed and settled without the intervention of the court, if the said last will and testament shall so provide: . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schubach v. Redelsheimer

2. ““As we said in Shufeldt v. Hughes, 55 Wash. 246, 104 Pac. 253 , our statutes provide two distinct methods of settling an estate under a will. One method is to probate the will under the direction of a court having jurisdiction in probate, and the other to settle it in the manner provided by the will, through an executor named in the will, without the intervention of the probate court. In the former method, the statutes cited by the appellant have full force and effect and govern the proceedings. But they have no application to the latter method.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schubach v. Redelsheimer

3. ““The statute authorizing such a will has been on the statute books since early territorial days, and has uniformly been construed to confer upon the executors of a will drawn pursuant to its provisions the right to execute the trust without interference on the part of the court,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bayer v. Bayer