Outlaw v. Danks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The testator, in the presence of two (2) or more attesting witnesses, shall signify to the witnesses that the instrument is the testator's will and either: (A) sign the will; (B) acknowledge the testator's signature already made; or (C) at the testator's direction and in the testator's presence have someone else sign the testator's name.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Callaway v. Callaway

2. “[[Image here]] (4) Take the acknowledgment of any person who is blind, without first reading the instrument to the blind person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In the Matter of the Supervised Estate of Mildred Borgwald v. Old National Bank and Raelynn Pound

3. “ample evidence that it was [the decedent's] intent to leave her property to [the defendant],”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nichols v. Estate of Tyler