Williams v. . Walker’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whatever may be the rulings in other states (and they are admitted to be in hopeless conflict), we prefer to adhere to the principle, so often declared by this Court, that a married woman, as to her statutory separate property, is to be deemed feme sole only to the extent of the power conferred by the Constitution and laws creating the same.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Buford v. . Mochy

2. “So if a feme covert , reciting by her deed that she is a feme sole , grant an annuity, this is a void grant, and she shall not be concluded by this recital.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Buford v. . Mochy

3. “would be to introduce into our law an entirely new system of the conveyances of the real estate of femes covert,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Buford v. . Mochy