821 So. 2d 169 - Cottingham v. McKee’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' Hansel v. Head , 706 So.2d 1142 , 1144 (Ala. 1997), quoting deGraaf v. Owen , 598 So.2d 892 , 895 (Ala. 1992). `To determine the intent of a testator or testatrix, the court must look to the four corners of the instrument, and if the language is unambiguous and clearly expresses the testator's or testatrix's intent, then that language must govern.' Born v. Clark , 662 So.2d 669 , 671 (Ala. 1995).”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. Smith · 168 So. 3d 40 - Ex parte Raymond Adams, as coexecutor of the estate of Clifford Wayne Cleveland

2. “In order to defeat a defendant's properly supported motion for summary judgment, the plaintiff must present substantial evidence, i.e., `evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of *Page 979 the fact sought to be proved.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. Kennedy

3. “Alabama courts have not addressed the question of who has the right of possession of a dead body for the purpose of preservation and burial”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 938 So. 2d 432 - McRae v. Booth