Townsend v. Munger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An outstanding debt due to the decedent is not assets in the hands of his executor or administrator to charge him, where there has not been gross negligence, or the delay in collecting it has not been collusive, fraudulent, or unreasonable.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Bonding Co. of Baltimore v. Fountain