Alexander v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While ordinarily the relation of parent and child is the result of the union of a man and woman, this is by no means exclusive nor universal when viewed from the purely legal aspect. * * * We have today almost universal statutes of adoption whereby the relation of parent and child is created with more or less similarity to the natural relation through the marriage of a man and woman. * * * Our stat ute . . . purports to confer upon an adopted child, in so far as his adoptive parents are concerned, all of the rights that he could have had under the law had he been born to them as a result of the marriage union. * * * “We are of the opinion that a child adopted pursuant to the statute of this state is to be considered as ‘born’ in lawful wedlock to such adoptive parents ...” (Italics added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Frizzell's Will

2. “Whenever a testator has a child born after the making of his will, either in his lifetime or after his death, and dies leaving such child unprovided for by any settlement, and neither provided for nor in any way mentioned in his will, the child succeeds to the same portion of the testator’s real and personal property that he would have succeeded to if the testator had died intestate. When any testator omits to provide in his will for any of his children, or for the issue of any deceased child unless it appears that such omission was intentional, such child, or the issue of such child, must have- the same share in the estate of the testator, as if he had died intestate, and succeeds thereto as provided in the preceding section.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Brown v. Crawford

3. “The defendants rely on and quote the language from Walker v. Brown, 43 Okla. 144 , 141 P. 681 , and Wilson v. Greer, 50 Okla. 387 , 151 P. 629 , but these cases were overruled by implication in Blundell v. Wallace, 96 Okla. 26 , 220 P. 40 , and as pointed out in Spaniard v. Tanton, 131 Okla. 75 , 267 P. 623 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. CHIMENTO v. GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES