Billings v. Head’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Our statutes of descent provide that an intestate’s land shall descend, one-third to the widow and the remainder to his children in equal proportions, provided that if a child be dead leaving a child surviving the latter shall take the share which its parent would have inherited, if living. § 2991 Burns 1914, § 2468- R. S. 1881. Our statute dealing with the right of inheritance of an adopted child reads as follows: ‘Such court, when satisfied that it will be for the interest of such child, shall make an order that' such child be adopted, and from and after the adoption of such child it shall take the name in which it is adopted and be entitled to and receive all the rights and interest in the estate of such adopting father and mother, by descent or otherwise, that such child would if the natural heir of such adopting father or mother: Provided, however, That should such adopted child die intestate, without leaving wife or husband, issue or their descendants, surviving him or her, seized of any real estate or owning any personal property which may have come to such child by gift, devise or descent from such adopting father or mother, such property so coming to such adopted child shall, on its death, descend to the heirs of said adopting father or mother the same as if such child had never been adopted.’ § 870 Burns 1914, supra.” (p. 362.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bartram v. Holcomb