Brewer v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Of course, the case is different where the original entryman himself completes the final proof and receives the final certificate. In such case there is, on .the part of the United States, no stripping of equities from one party and transferring of them gratuitously to another, as there is when the widow of a deceased entryman is gratuitously preferred over his natural heirs. “In such case the entryman is a mere purchaser from the United States to whom had been granted mere preference in the right to purchase by reason of his priority of entry on the land. And accordingly the status of the land acquired becomes community property or separate property accordingly as the final certificate issued during the marriage or after dissolution thereof, regardless of when the entry thereon might originally have been made. Doucet v. Fontenot, 165 La. 458 , 115 So. 655 ; Industrial Lumber Co. v. Farque, 162 La. 793 , 111 So. 166 ; Smith v. Anacoco Lumber Co., 157 La. 466 , 102 So. 574 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 86 So. 2d 635 - Henry v. Radiscish