Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Nor, contrary to appellants’ insistence, was it necessary for the appellee to have a community interest in the landed estate of her husband in order to be entitled to such an allowance in lieu of a homestead, as was herein permitted by the trial court, based upon the verdict and findings; because, under our statutes and decisions, being the surviving widow of the deceased, which she in fact and law was, notwithstanding the then pendency of an un-disposed of divorce suit between them, she was entitled' to such a homestead right, even in his separate property — and to the awarded allowance in lieu thereof, on the coming in of the proof to the effect that his estate had been left in such condition from incumbrances and other impediments (including any nonexempt character of its lands) as to prevent the setting apart of a homestead thereon to her; Runnels v. Runnels, 27 Tex. 515 ; Kopplin v. Ewald, Tex.Civ.App., 70 S.W. 2d 608 ; Jones v. Bartlett, Tex.Civ.App., 189 S.W. 1107 , error refused; 18 Tex. Jur., § 212, page 792; § 235, page 814; Simkins Administration of Estates, 3rd Edition, page 214, § 160, also page 244, § 181; R.S. Article 3498; Buse v. Buse, Tex.Civ.App., 287 S.W. 141 ; Beall v. Hollingsworth, Tex.Civ.App., 46 S.W. 881 ; Crump v. Andress, Tex.Com.App., 278 S.W. 422 ; Cockrell v. Curtis, 83 Tex. 105 , 18 S.W. 436 ; Bradley v. DeRoche, 70 Tex. 465 , 7 S.W. 779 ; Good v. Good, Tex.Civ.App., 293 S.W. 621 ; Simkins on Estates, 3rd Edition, page 230.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ward v. Braun