Hopf v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The statute further provides the mode of proof when all the subscribing witnesses are dead, or when the will was wholly written by the testator, but none of the statutory provisions on the subject forbid the introduction of other than the statutory proof; and cases may arise in which it would-be the duty of a court to probate a will even in opposition to the testimony of the subscribing witnesses. “If from defect of memory or from corrupt purpose subscribing witnesses should be unable or unwilling to testify to the facts bearing on the due execution of a will, this ought not to be permitted to defeat the will if other evidence admissible under the ordinary rules of law to establish facts be introduced sufficient to satisfy the court ‘that the testator executed the will with the formalities and solemnities and under the ' circumstances, required by law to make a valid will.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Massey v. Allen