Hjortaas v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““To bolster its finding that [the wife] possessed such knowledge the trial court attached substantial significance to some essentially irrelevant facts: i.e., that the parties resided together before the marriage, that [the wife] had a real estate license, ... that [the wife] had visited the Maine property on several occasions, that [the wife] knew of the construction of the Inn of Naples, and that [the wife] worked at the Inn. [The wife’s] observations of [the husband’s] Maine and Naples properties could possibly have led her to a marginal understanding of the extent of [the husband’s] wealth, but there is nothing to suggest that [the wife] possessed the financial sophistication to convert what she saw into an appraised value.””

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

2. “only one day to seek counsel from her own attorney, to make an independent evaluation of the contract, or to cancel her wedding.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 887 So. 2d 419 - Waton v. Waton

3. “The timing of the signing of the document indicates that ... [the wife's] signature was the product of duress.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 887 So. 2d 419 - Waton v. Waton