Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This court has laid down the rule in the case of In re Gorkow’s Estate, 20 Wash. 563 , 56 Pac. 385 , quoting from Bedfield on Wills, as to what the quantum of mental capacity to make a will is, as follows: “ ‘The result of the best considered cases upon the subject seems to put a quantum of understanding requisite to the valid execution of a will upon the basis of knowing and comprehending the transaction, or, in popular phrase, that the testator should at the time of executing the will know and understand what he was about.’ “We hold the view that the right to dispose of one’s property by will is one assured by the law and is a valuable incident to ownership, and does not depend upon its judicious use.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. White v. White

2. “A citation is the process designated by the statute in probate proceedings for bringing adverse parties into court. It is the counterpart of the summons in ordinary civil proceedings.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Estate of Kordon