Osborne v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . A written will must be the act of the testator, although another may pen the words or otherwise assist him in consummating the act. It must be ‘signed at the end thereof by the party making the same, or by some other person in his presence and by his express direction.’ (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 7938.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grattan v. Bethel College