Blackmon v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 43 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The courts of this State have held that proceeds of a life insurance policy, taken out by the husband and payable to the estate of the decedent, the premiums of which were paid for with community property belonging to the community estate, are one-half the property of the wife, and that said part is no part of the estate of the husband. [Citing Martin v. Moran; State v. Jones, and Lee v. Lee, all supra.] Therefore we hold that only one-half of the proceeds * * * is subject to taxes under Article 7117, supra, as part of the husband's gross estate."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Warthan v. Haynes

2. “"* * * The Texas statute having been literally taken from the Federal statute the presumption is that the Texas Legislature knew of the construction given such statute at the time of its adoption, and intended to adopt such statute as construed by the Federal courts; and such statute is to be considered by the courts of this State in the light of such construction. * * *"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Warthan v. Haynes