Hill v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““This court . . . appreciates the annoyance, inconvenience and difficulties which necessarily beset the executors and the guardian in performing the duties which devolve upon them in the execution of their trust; but the very difficulties of the situation ought to prompt a strict compliance with the law in regard to the time and character of their reports to the court, and frequent, explicit and distinct accountings, so that the court, who ought always to jealously guard the interest of minor heirs, could see at a glance the condition of the estate, particularly so far as its relations with the guardian and executors are concerned.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re the Guardianship of Carlson