Connell v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is the policy of the law to give to the individual a near-by and convenient court. Save in exceptional cases, hardships have not been visited upon the citizen by requiring him, at the expense of time and means, to respond over long distances to the process of the courts. The jurisdiction of tribunals having judicial powers has wisely been limited in that particular. In pursuance of this policy of the law there has been established by the legislature a probate court in each county of the state. The undoubted purpose of the legislature in so doing was to give the inhabitants of each county a near-by and convenient tribunal having jurisdiction of probate matters. It will hardly be urged that an exception to these favors- in the law was intended by the legislature to be made against the resident minors. ... “The mere fact, that the legislature failed to designate specifically, in the act relating to guardians and wards, what probate court should acquire jurisdiction of the persons and estates of minors will not be presumed to have been intended to operate against the minor; nor should it be construed to his disadvantage, if equally susceptible of two constructions. If, as in the case at bar, the county adjoining that of the minor’s domicile had jurisdiction of the person and estate of the minor, as was sought to be exercised by the probate court of Elk county, then any county in the state, no matter how remote, especially where, there chanced to be property belonging, to his ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Foran v. Healy