Lisman v. Marks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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. ““The words ‘children of the blood’ are equivalent to the words ‘issue of the body.’ If the conveyance had been to the ‘children’ of Mrs. Lisman, then it might be argued that the word ‘children’ was a word of purchase rather than a word of limitation, but inasmuch as the conveyance was to ‘children of the blood,’ the children designated must be blood children as distinguished from adopted children.” (p. 346.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schwarz v. Rabe