Shields v. Shields’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jurisdiction of the probate and the chancery courts in the assignment of dower in both real estate and personalty is therefore concurrent, and the case before us is one where the jurisdiction of the chancery court was invoked to assign dower in the real estate, but not in the personal estate, whereas the administrator had made a partial assignment of dower, which action he had reported to the probate court. The money' given and paid the widow by the administrator constituted a partial assignment of dower, and the probate court approved the report thereof. This was an assumption of jurisdiction by the probate court to assign dower in the personalty, and after jurisdiction had been assumed by the probate court for this purpose, the chancery court should not have interfered, as the jurisdiction of the two courts was concurrent, and the jurisdiction of the probate court had first been invoked in regard to the personalty. Phillips v. Phillips, 143 Ark. 240 , 220 S. W. 52 ; State v. Devers, 34 Ark. 188 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Drennan v. McCarthy, Guardian