Allore v. Jewell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

49 federal appellate · 10 district · 94 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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It may be stated as settled law whenever there is great weakness of mind in a person executing a conveyance of land, arising from age, sickness, or any other cause, though not amounting to absolute disqualification, and the consideration given for the property was grossly inadequate, a court of equity will, upon proper and seasonable application, set the conveyance aside. ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griffith v. Godey · Ralston v. Turpin

2. ““It is not necessary, in order to secure the aid of equity, to prove that the deceased was at the time insane, or in such a state of mental imbecility as to render her entirely incapable of executing a valid deed. It is sufficient to show that, from her sickness and infirmities, she was at the time in a condition of great mental weakness, and that there was gross inadequacy of consideration for the conveyance. From these circumstances, imposition or undue influence will be inferred.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rishel v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co. of California · Estate of Brast

3. ““Numerous witnesses were examined in the case, and a large amount of testimony was taken. This testimony has been carefully analyzed by the defendant’s counsel; and it must be admitted that the facts detailed by any one witness with reference to the condition of the deceased previous to her last illness, considered separately and apart from the statements of the ■others, do not show incapacity to transact business on her part, nor establish insanity, either continued or temporary. And yet, when all the facts stated by the different witnesses are taken together, one is led irresistibly by their ■combined effect to the conclusion that, if the deceased was not afiiicted with insanity for some years before her death, her mind wandered so near the 3ine which divides sanity from insanity as to render any important business transaction with her of doubtful propriety, and to justify a careful scrutiny into its fairness.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Barstow v. Beckett