Graden v. Mais’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If, however, the statute should be interpreted to mean that an administrator’s deed is prima facie evidence of the validity of the entire proceeding upon which it is based, it would do no more than dispense with an appeal to the record in the first instance. Whenever the record.is produced it must control. If it should be shown that the required record is destroyed or has been lost, then, in the absence of secondary evidence, the presumption attending the deed might be allowed to prevail,, as in the case of Morrill v. Douglass, 14 Kan. 293, 304 . But when the complete record is offered in evidence it proves what steps essential to jurisdiction were in fact omitted as well as •what steps were in fact taken. It establishes the fact that nothing was done except what it shows, and that whatever it shows to have been done was done in the manner it shows.” (p. 704.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pearcy v. Williams