Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If lands be devised to a woman, or a pecuniary or other provision be made for her, by the will of her late husband, in lieu of her right to lands of her husband, she shall make an election whether she will take the lands so devised or the provision so made, or ivhether she will retain the right to one-third of the land óf her late husband; but she shall not be entitled to both, unless it plainly appear by the will to have been the intention of the testator that she should have such lands, or pecuniary or other provision thus devised or bequeathed, in addition to her right in the lands of her husband.” (Our emphasis.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 Ind. App. 250 - Ogle v. Barker

2. ““To whatever extent, if any, the appellant became divested of her title to said real estate because of her election to take under the will, in a corresponding degree the title of the appellees, as the surviving heirs of Ephraim Collins, was thereby increased.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 116 Ind. App. 250 - Ogle v. Barker