Williams v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a claim is rejected, either by the executor or administrator, or the judge of the county court, the holder must bring suit in the proper court, according to its amount, against the executor or administrator, within three months after the date of its rejection, if it be then due, or within two months after it becomes due, otherwise the claim is forever barred.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Loman's Estate · Reed v. Carter

2. ““Both the agreement to allow and the attempted allowance by indorsement occurred after the lapse of more than 10 days next following the date of filing the claim with the administrator. The claim was therefore, under the statute, a rejected claim at the time of the agreement to allow and at the time said indorsement of allowance was made. The claim, under the law, was then a rejected claim, on account of the nonaction thereon of the administrator for a period of 10 days after the same had been filed with him for allowance. * * *””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Loman's Estate · Reed v. Carter