Reed v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under these sections, it appears to us that the executrix of the estate of Alexander Wilson has no duty to perform in regard to the settlement of the estate of Terry merely by reason of the fact that she is the executrix of her husband’s will. She is a stranger to the administration or execution of the will of Terry, and can no more be called upon to settle that estate than if she had not been named as executrix of the will of her husband.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robbins ex rel. Wood v. Burridge