Pastorius v. Davis’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. ““As we understand the law governing county courts acting as courts of probate under proceedings of this description, a claim properly so denominated is a debt of the decedent, or at least a claim against the decedent existing in his lifetime, and which the parties have a right to file against the estate, have allowed and paid out of the property which may have passed into the hands of the administrator. We do not understand that an unliquidated claim growing-out of a breach of a covenant of warranty, committed by the heir of an ancestor, is of the description requisite to entitle the party to this kind of a remedy. ’ ’”

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