11 Tex. Civ. App. 392 - Chapman v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 20 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The community estate is created by law as an incident oí marriage and does not arise from contract between the parties. It is created by law only as between those who occupy towards each other the relation of husband and wife. If appellant (the putative wife) had an interest in any of the property, it was because she acquired right or title to it in some other way than by the mere operation of the statute under which the right to half of the property acquired by either husband or wife during marriage is vested in the wife. Such right is given by law to the wife, as such, because she is the wife, and not because of the performance of services to the husband, or because she is permitted by her companion to assume the station and enjoy the other privileges belonging-to a wife, where she is not such in law and fact.-”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McLarry v. Commissioner

2. ““The community estate is created by law as an incident of marriage, and does not arise from contract between the parties. It is created by law only as between those who occupy towards each other the relation of husband and wife.””

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