Jordan v. Abney, Administrator’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 86 state decisions

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

1. ““That a contract between two persons upon valuable consideration, that one will, at his death, leave property to the other, is enforceable, where no statute is contravened, is held by an almost unbroken current of authority, English and American. Such contracts when sufficiently certain have been held valid and enforceable, in equity as well as at law, whether they provide for the payment of money, or the leaving of specific property, or of all or a moiety of that which the obligor should leave at his death. They have usually been put in the form of agreements to bequeath by will, but this has not been regarded' as an essential feature; agreements to leave the property, or that the obligee should have it, at' the death of the obligor, being held sufficient,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gerlich v. Myers

2. “"This right (adoption) arises by operation of law from the acts of the parties made in compliance with the statute, and does not depend on, or arise from, contract."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moorman v. Hunnicutt