Rector v. Alcorn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““From an examination of the entire will of Gov. Alcorn, we do not take the view that the words in reference to Mrs. Alcorn are precatory.””

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